Bus operation, school and employee · Massachusetts

11778 Fitchburg

Fitchburg, MA · ~89 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

11778 Fitchburg runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bus operation, school and employee workplace, earning a grade C.

11778 Fitchburg: 4.3 TCR = 96% of Bus operation, school and employee BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

11778 Fitchburg safety composite

11778 Fitchburg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

11778 Fitchburg: 4.2 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2024

11778 Fitchburg's TCR rose 4.5 from 4.2 in 2020 to 8.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Fitchburg, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #23/47
  • PHOTO STA-St. Louis
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STA-St. Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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11778 Fitchburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 11778 Fitchburg averages 4.3 TCR (96% of the Bus operation, school and employee BLS benchmark).

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

11778 Fitchburg TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 11778 Fitchburg falls in its industry

1,574 Bus operation, school and empl establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 47 Bus operation, school and empl employers in Massachusetts.

11778 Fitchburg (89 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 11778 Fitchburg
11778 Fitchburg (89 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

11778 Fitchburg has more employees than the Bus operation, school and employee median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 8.7 7.0 5 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2022 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2020 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · MA · Fitchburg

1,574 Bus operation, school and employee employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, 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 STA-St. Louis 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCX Missouri 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4142 EAST REGION-AS NEW ORLEANS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student East Aurora 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1-EMP-Billerica 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shire - Milford MA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bixby International Corp 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Central Illinois - Washington 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HYDAC Cooling Systems 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Printing Services Manufacturing 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Verrette Materials, Inc / Gillett Cement Products 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Louis United Logistics 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Enterprises LLC-Ronkonkoma 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lanxess 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Meade, FL 89 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.