Retail Stores · Massachusetts

0273 - West Springfield, Ma

West Springfield, MA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0273 - West Springfield, Ma runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0273 - West Springfield, Ma: 8.0 TCR = 236% of Retail Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0273 - West Springfield, Ma safety composite

0273 - West Springfield, Ma scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

0273 - West Springfield, Ma held a steady TCR band

0273 - West Springfield, Ma's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.2 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.2 · 2018=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · West Springfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 236% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO Sunshine Ace Hardwar…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunshine Ace Hardware-East Naples (0.0 TCR gap)

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0273 - West Springfield, Ma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0273 - West Springfield, Ma averages 8.0 TCR (236% of the Retail Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0273 - West Springfield, Ma TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=7.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 0273 - West Springfield, Ma falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 18 Retail Stores employers in Massachusetts.

0273 - West Springfield, Ma (19 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 0273 - West Springfield, Ma
0273 - West Springfield, Ma (19 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

0273 - West Springfield, Ma has fewer employees than the Retail Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2018 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2017 8.2 8.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · MA · West Springfield

1,493 Retail Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 63 employers in West Springfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Ace Hardware-East Naples 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0443 - SANTA FE, NM 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1450 Mitchell Blvd/ Schaumburg 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0514 - BECKLEY WV 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALL ENERGY SOLAR North East 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 911-NiSource-Ludlow MA 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Douglas A King Builders, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saloomey Construction Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0302 - WEST SPRINGFIELD MA WHSE 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR BHH - Baystate Home Health 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Region Customer Center 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bear Mountain 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3051 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Dickinson 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomedical Enterprises San Antonio 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Center 8.0 TCR

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: 2018, 2017. 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.