Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufacturing · Massachusetts

The L.S. Starrett Company

Athol, MA · ~543 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The L.S. Starrett Company runs at 403% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

The L.S. Starrett Company: 13.3 TCR = 403% of Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The L.S. Starrett Company safety composite

The L.S. Starrett Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−26.6

2016→2020

The L.S. Starrett Company injury rate improved

The L.S. Starrett Company's TCR fell 26.6 from 26.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 26.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=26.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Athol, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 403% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Dynamic Dies Pitt
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dynamic Dies Pitt (0.2 TCR gap)

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The L.S. Starrett Company in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows The L.S. Starrett Company averages 13.3 TCR (403% of the Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

The L.S. Starrett Company TCR series: 2016=26.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where The L.S. Starrett Company falls in its industry

174 Soldering iron tips and tiplet establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Soldering iron tips and tiplet employers in Massachusetts.

The L.S. Starrett Company (543 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The L.S. Starrett Company
The L.S. Starrett Company (543 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

The L.S. Starrett Company has more employees than the Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 26.6 2.2 69 87 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · MA · Athol

174 Soldering iron tips and tiplets manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 20 employers in Athol, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Dynamic Dies Pitt 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norstar Aluminum Molds, LLC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hallmark Stone Company Acquisition LLC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jonesville Tool & Manufacturing, Inc. 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HGCORP 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lantheus Medical Imaging 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - Woburn, MA 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE KARL STORZ - Charlton 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #78 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR MassGrow LLC - Ascend Wellness Holdings 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Athol Memorial Hospital 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08385 - Store # 8385 Orange 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Bros. Contracting, Inc. 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OCCR OC Animal Care 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aston Office 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Purgatory Recreation Management, LLC 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anaren Microwave, Inc 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCS Wireless, LLC 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE BorgWarner 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6795-86012B0599 543 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.