Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade · Massachusetts

Worcester Manufacturing

Worcester, MA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Worcester Manufacturing runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

Worcester Manufacturing: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Worcester Manufacturing safety composite

Worcester Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Worcester Manufacturing: 2.7 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Worcester Manufacturing's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.7 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Worcester, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/26
  • PHOTO Apex Anodizing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apex Anodizing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Worcester Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Worcester Manufacturing averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Worcester Manufacturing TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Worcester Manufacturing falls in its industry

585 Chrome plating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 26 Chrome plating metals and meta employers in Massachusetts.

Worcester Manufacturing (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Worcester Manufacturing
Worcester Manufacturing (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Worcester Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Chrome plating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · MA · Worcester

585 Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, 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 Apex Anodizing 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electro Polish Co. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Finishing, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astro Pak Corporation 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Best Bees Company 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Wareham 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kneeland 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lagasse Group, LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR 8519 Mission 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2805 Bloomington 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2802 Fridley 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colma 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greeneville - East Laughlin 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson-Madison County Evs 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonesta Select Boca Raton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE UF Panda RU 30 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. 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.