Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Maine

Wd Matthews Machinery Co

Auburn, ME · ~110 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wd Matthews Machinery Co runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wd Matthews Machinery Co: 6.7 TCR = 304% of Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wd Matthews Machinery Co safety composite

Wd Matthews Machinery Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Wd Matthews Machinery Co: 4.1 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Wd Matthews Machinery Co's TCR rose 4.0 from 4.1 in 2021 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Auburn, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 304% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Kasto, Inc. - Export
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kasto, Inc. - Export (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wd Matthews Machinery Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wd Matthews Machinery Co averages 6.7 TCR (304% of the Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wd Matthews Machinery Co TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=7 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Wd Matthews Machinery Co falls in its industry

911 Materials handling machinery a establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Wd Matthews Machinery Co (110 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Wd Matthews Machinery Co
Wd Matthews Machinery Co (110 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Wd Matthews Machinery Co has more employees than the Materials handling machinery and equipme median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 8.2 4.1 8 0 0
2023 7.0 4.0 7 0 0
2022 7.4 5.2 10 0 0
2021 4.1 4.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · ME · Auburn

911 Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 100 employers in Auburn, 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 Kasto, Inc. - Export 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Company 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Storage Systems Midwest 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 31 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 210 NORTHEAST PAVING COMPANY 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Fire 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00628 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Joseph at Waterville 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR John F Murphy Homes, Inc 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1868 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1868 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Plastics - Auburn 411 FTE
NAT-TCR Rainbow Play Systems, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tallahassee 10211 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Findlay Oh - 3187 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Smoky Mountain Logistics LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 20751 Champlin 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 167 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 316 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 326 110 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.