Discount Department Stores · Massachusetts

1348 - Worcester

Worcester, MA · ~201 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1348 - Worcester runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1348 - Worcester: 5.2 TCR = 154% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1348 - Worcester safety composite

1348 - Worcester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

1348 - Worcester: 1.9 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

1348 - Worcester's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.9 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 154% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #29/61
  • PHOTO 1213 - Lemont
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1213 - Lemont (0.0 TCR gap)

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1348 - Worcester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1348 - Worcester averages 5.2 TCR (154% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1348 - Worcester TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 1348 - Worcester falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 61 Discount Department Stores employers in Massachusetts.

1348 - Worcester (201 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1348 - Worcester
1348 - Worcester (201 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1348 - Worcester has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.3 10.4 3 9 0
2021 8.8 6.2 3 7 0
2019 1.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MA · Worcester

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 1213 - Lemont 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1539 - Shiloh 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2231 - Wheeling 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2240 - Nashville West 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Piantedosi Baking Company (240) 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific - Bedford, MA Framingham, MA 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPL Leominster 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2902 201 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 Suter Mechanical, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2240 - Nashville West 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2231 - Wheeling 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1539 - Shiloh 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1228 - Nashua 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2545 - Warwick Township 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2429 - New Braunfels 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2262 - Richland Twp North 201 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, 2019. 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.