Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing · Maine

Vic Firth Company

Newport, ME · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vic Firth Company runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vic Firth Company: 10.1 TCR = 305% of Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vic Firth Company safety composite

Vic Firth Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Vic Firth Company: 8.4 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2019

Vic Firth Company's TCR rose 3.7 from 8.4 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339992 · Newport, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 305% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Paladar
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paladar (0.9 TCR gap)

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Vic Firth Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vic Firth Company averages 10.1 TCR (305% of the Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vic Firth Company TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Vic Firth Company falls in its industry

41 Drums (musical instruments), p establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Vic Firth Company (137 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vic Firth Company
Vic Firth Company (137 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Vic Firth Company has more employees than the Drums (musical instruments), parts, and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2019 12.1 6.8 8 8 0
2018 9.7 3.0 6 7 0
2016 8.4 3.1 6 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339992 · ME · Newport

41 Drums (musical instruments), parts, and accessories manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 10 employers in Newport, ME · 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 Paladar 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vic Firth / Avedis Zildjian Company 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ernie Ball Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. J. Grondin and Sons 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2514 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-02626 FAC-02626-SACO-ME 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-04556 FAC-04556-BANGOR-ME 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08443 - Store # 8443 Newport 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8443 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport Industrial Fabrication 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR GILMAN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY (PC4997) 39 FTE
NAT-TCR New Homestead 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The French Patisserie Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowley Enterprises 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ARH 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Finishing 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmington Branch 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Division 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE EcoWater Systems Ripley 137 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.