Department Stores · Massachusetts

029 - Burlington

Burlington, MA · ~144 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

029 - Burlington runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

029 - Burlington: 3.8 TCR = 112% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

029 - Burlington safety composite

029 - Burlington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2018

029 - Burlington injury rate improved

029 - Burlington's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2018=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Burlington, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #20/27
  • PHOTO Store 0452 Charlotte
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0452 Charlotte (0.0 TCR gap)

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029 - Burlington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 029 - Burlington averages 3.8 TCR (112% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

029 - Burlington TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2018=3 · BLS 3.4

Where 029 - Burlington falls in its industry

1,987 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 27 Department Stores employers in Massachusetts.

029 - Burlington (144 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 029 - Burlington
029 - Burlington (144 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

029 - Burlington has more employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2016 4.6 3.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · MA · Burlington

1,987 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 89 employers in Burlington, 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 Store 0452 Charlotte 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0691 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1862 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Meadows 345 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rentschler Biopharma Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covestro Deerfield 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCHOTT North America Electronic Packaging 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-04568 FAC-04568-AUBURNDALE-MA 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lahey Hospital and Medical Center 4,493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington, MA 4,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lahey Medical Center 4,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMD Millipore Corporation - 400 Summit 838 FTE
NAT-TCR Titan Global Investigations LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0296 - Spokane, Wa 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton (Ohcan) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory (Nccon) 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orangegrove Rehabilitation 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Trailer Sales Plant 7 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE South 601 (Stores) MNE9 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown (Wiwat) 144 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.