Variety stores · Massachusetts

233 Southwick MA

Southwick, MA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

233 Southwick MA runs at 283% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade F.

233 Southwick MA: 9.6 TCR = 283% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

233 Southwick MA safety composite

233 Southwick MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

233 Southwick MA: 5.0 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2017

233 Southwick MA's TCR rose 9.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Southwick, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 283% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #73/83
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4621…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4621 Port Orchard, WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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233 Southwick MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 233 Southwick MA averages 9.6 TCR (283% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

233 Southwick MA TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=14.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 233 Southwick MA falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 83 Variety stores employers in Massachusetts.

233 Southwick MA (49 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 233 Southwick MA
233 Southwick MA (49 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

233 Southwick MA has more employees than the Variety stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 14.2 14.2 3 0 0
2016 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Southwick

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 8 employers in Southwick, 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 Big Lots Store #4621 Port Orchard, WA 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4572 Brighton, CO 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5086 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mast Store - Original 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE G&F Precision Molding INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE TANGO CONSTRCTION, INC. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashoba Air Inc. 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR 43 Hudson Drive 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Southwick 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwick 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR B&E Tool Company 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3237 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rusk Rehabilitation Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowell C. Hagen Trucking, Inc 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Versa-Tech Technologies, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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: 2017, 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.