Department Stores · Massachusetts

031 - South Shore

Braintree, MA · ~127 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

031 - South Shore runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

031 - South Shore: 4.6 TCR = 136% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

031 - South Shore safety composite

031 - South Shore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

031 - South Shore held a steady TCR band

031 - South Shore's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.6 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2018=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #24/27
  • PHOTO Unit # 2085
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit # 2085 (0.0 TCR gap)

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031 - South Shore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 031 - South Shore averages 4.6 TCR (136% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

031 - South Shore TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2018=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 031 - South Shore falls in its industry

1,987 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #24 safest of 27 Department Stores employers in Massachusetts.

031 - South Shore (127 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 031 - South Shore
031 - South Shore (127 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

031 - South Shore 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 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2016 4.6 3.4 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · MA · Braintree

1,987 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 95 employers in Braintree, 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 Unit # 2085 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0350 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0239 Savannah 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0285 Rogers 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WHITE S PATH-MA55 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIREKING BAKING CO. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curia Massachusetts, Inc 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerson Automation Solutions US LP 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atalian Global Services - New England 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haemonetics - Braintree 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Shore Plaza 036 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Braintree LLC 393 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Rapids Center (Mibgr) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR # 1 Cochran Subaru of Butler County 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CareServe Private Duty 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Menominee 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Appolo Heating 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lufkin (Txluf) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington (Pawas) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greensboro (Ncgsb) 127 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.