Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc

Maynard, MA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc safety composite

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc: 2.3 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.3 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339930 · Maynard, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Polyform
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polyform (0.1 TCR gap)

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Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc falls in its industry

32 Musical instruments, toy, manu establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 17 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc
Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Verne Q Powell Flutes, Inc has fewer employees than the Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339930 · MA · Maynard

32 Musical instruments, toy, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 7 employers in Maynard, 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 Polyform 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chessex Manufacturing Company LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR York Road 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Realityworks, Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Payne|Bouchier Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rise Construction Management 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-South Dennis-Western Boulevard 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth MA 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Panther Group, Inc 1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #87 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panther Global Holdings, LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camellia Gardens 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Rochester Motors, LLC. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabinetworks Group Culpeper 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FET Engineering Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lumberton 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MBKT Corp 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Western Malting Pocatello 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprig Oral Health Technologies, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50058 Capstone - Hd Pittston Pa 48 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.