Quartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc

Shirley, MA · ~24 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

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Quartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Quartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc safety composite

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc: 0.0 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc's TCR rose 12.7 from 0.0 in 2021 to 12.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334419 · Shirley, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/21
  • PHOTO Load & Torque
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Load & Torque (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Design Corp Operations Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Design Corp Operations Inc averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Quartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=12.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Design Corp Operations Inc falls in its industry

334 Quartz crystals, electronic ap establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 21 Quartz crystals, electronic ap employers in Massachusetts.

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Design Corp Operations Inc
Valley Design Corp Operations Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Valley Design Corp Operations Inc has fewer employees than the Quartz crystals, electronic application, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2024 12.7 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334419 · MA · Shirley

334 Quartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 12 employers in Shirley, 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 Load & Torque 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mini-Circuits (Deer Park) 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kauffman Engineering, LLC - LOG 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moog, Inc. - Springfield 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR BemisUS Shirley 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bemis Associates, Inc. 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Leaf Farms 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Closets by Design Boston 104 FTE
NAT-TCR Proteus, Inc. Dinuba Service Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 12620 - Oak Park 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR double kwik Jackson 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryder System, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston, TX - 600 Fallbrook Dr 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kloeckner Metals Processing 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlstadt, NJ - 600 Gotham Parkway 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cutting Edge Laser Machining, Inc. 24 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.