Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire · Massachusetts

US056B: ACS Unit 1

New Bedford, MA · ~130 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US056B: ACS Unit 1 runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade C.

US056B: ACS Unit 1: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US056B: ACS Unit 1 safety composite

US056B: ACS Unit 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−1.1

2018→2021

US056B: ACS Unit 1 injury rate improved

US056B: ACS Unit 1's TCR fell 1.1 from 4.2 in 2018 to 3.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.2 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #13/20
  • PHOTO Draka Cableteq USA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Draka Cableteq USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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US056B: ACS Unit 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US056B: ACS Unit 1 averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS benchmark).

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

US056B: ACS Unit 1 TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where US056B: ACS Unit 1 falls in its industry

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 20 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, employers in Massachusetts.

US056B: ACS Unit 1 (130 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate US056B: ACS Unit 1
US056B: ACS Unit 1 (130 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

US056B: ACS Unit 1 has more employees than the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 3.2 2.4 4 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 3.7 1.5 5 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · MA · New Bedford

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, 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 Draka Cableteq USA 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prysmian Group - Marion Plant 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orangeburg - Cable Plant 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lynnwell Associates, Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Table Talk Pies - Southgate 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSB Industries Lawrence 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE SunSetter Products LP 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR US7122: Tampa 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Radford Wildgreens 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ca - Tjx 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Interboro SD 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Airtron Dayton 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Center for the Arts, Escondido 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE 12 - Willoughby 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Crest Healthcare 130 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.