Discount Department Stores · Massachusetts

1442 - Watertown

Watertown, MA · ~314 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1442 - Watertown runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

1442 - Watertown: 3.2 TCR = 95% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1442 - Watertown safety composite

1442 - Watertown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−1.3

2019→2024

1442 - Watertown injury rate improved

1442 - Watertown's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.1 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.1 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Watertown, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 95% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #15/61
  • PHOTO WM 5227
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 5227 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1442 - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1442 - Watertown averages 3.2 TCR (95% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1442 - Watertown TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1442 - Watertown falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #15 safest of 61 Discount Department Stores employers in Massachusetts.

1442 - Watertown (314 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 1442 - Watertown
1442 - Watertown (314 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1442 - Watertown has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower 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 2.8 2.3 5 0 0
2023 2.1 1.0 4 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 4 1 0
2021 4.5 3.0 7 2 0
2019 4.1 2.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MA · Watertown

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 43 employers in Watertown, 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 WM 5227 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 168 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDs DISCOUNTS Store 5048 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1018 - Richmond Central 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cardinal Health - KPR-US, LLC 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Shore (Weymouth) Animal Hospital 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Boston 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yankee Candle Distribution 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.C. Cannistraro LLC 773 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERTOWN (MAWAT) 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAWAT - WATERTOWN 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doble Engineering Company 286 FTE
NAT-TCR Zorn Compressor & Equipment - Pewaukee 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of St Cloud 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP061 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue River Services, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rural Alaska Community Action Program Inc. 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2451 - Flushing 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic St. Marys 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton WI 314 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.