Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soling strips), rubber, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Vibram Corporation

North Brookfield, MA · ~293 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vibram Corporation runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soling strips), rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Vibram Corporation: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soling strips), rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vibram Corporation safety composite

Vibram Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Vibram Corporation: 5.6 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Vibram Corporation's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.6 in 2018 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · North Brookfield, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK P27
  • PHOTO Aviation Inflatables
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~293 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aviation Inflatables (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vibram Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vibram Corporation averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soling strips), rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vibram Corporation TCR series: 2018=5.6 · 2019=4.7 · 2022=5 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Vibram Corporation falls in its industry

257 Footwear parts (e.g., heels, s establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Vibram Corporation (293 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Vibram Corporation
Vibram Corporation (293 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Vibram Corporation has more employees than the Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soli 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
2024 8.4 2.8 8 10 0
2022 5.0 3.3 12 0 0
2019 4.7 3.1 14 1 0
2018 5.6 3.1 13 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · MA · North Brookfield

257 Footwear parts (e.g., heels, soles, soling strips), rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 Aviation Inflatables 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MID SOUTH ROLLER 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Rubber LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6_12 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EG Sawyer Co., Inc. 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unistress Corp 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christmas Tree Shops Middleboro eService 7098 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08011 - Store # 8011 Brookfield 137 FTE
NAT-TCR Tri-County Welding & Fabrication, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwood Facility 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Base 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Laboratories 5036 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lawry's The Prime Rib, Beverly Hills 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Albany Country Club, LLC 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flowers Baking Company 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona 293 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, 2022, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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