Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing · New Hampshire

Velcro USA Inc

Somersworth, NH · ~191 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Velcro USA Inc runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Velcro USA Inc: 8.7 TCR = 263% of Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Velcro USA Inc safety composite

Velcro USA Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Velcro USA Inc: 6.9 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2021

Velcro USA Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 6.9 in 2020 to 10.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339993 · Somersworth, NH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 263% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Stevens Company Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stevens Company Inc. (1.1 TCR gap)

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Velcro USA Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Velcro USA Inc averages 8.7 TCR (263% of the Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Velcro USA Inc TCR series: 2020=6.9 · 2021=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Velcro USA Inc falls in its industry

25 Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-a establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Velcro USA Inc (191 employees, TCR 8.7) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 19 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 0200400600800 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Velcro USA Inc
Velcro USA Inc (191 employees, TCR 8.7) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Velcro USA Inc has more employees than the Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, sl median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 10.4 4.4 10 9 0
2020 6.9 5.8 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339993 · NH · Somersworth

25 Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 20 employers in Somersworth, NH · 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 Stevens Company Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Termax Corporation 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZIPPER MANUFACTURER AND THREAD WINDER 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Rivet & Machine Company 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Market Basket #56 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE NHDOV - DOVER 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coke Northeast - Londonderry Sales 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Contitech Thermopol LLC 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1749 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1749 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aclara Meters LLC 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Omaha Terminal - Hunt Transportation - DOT 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR State Steel Sioux falls 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Indianapolis Belmont Ave 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Lafayette 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yarn & Dye 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kings Card Club 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1115 - Mount Vernon Va Whse 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia 191 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. 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.