Variety stores · Massachusetts

237 Chicopee MA

Chicopee, MA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

237 Chicopee MA runs at 309% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade F.

237 Chicopee MA: 10.5 TCR = 309% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

237 Chicopee MA safety composite

237 Chicopee MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 10.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.49 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

237 Chicopee MA: 8.5 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2017

237 Chicopee MA's TCR rose 4.0 from 8.5 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 309% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #75/83
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1661…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1661 EGG HARBOR CITY, NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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237 Chicopee MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 237 Chicopee MA averages 10.5 TCR (309% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

237 Chicopee MA TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=12.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 237 Chicopee MA falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #75 safest of 83 Variety stores employers in Massachusetts.

237 Chicopee MA (59 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 237 Chicopee MA
237 Chicopee MA (59 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

237 Chicopee 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 12.5 12.5 3 0 0
2016 8.5 8.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Chicopee

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, 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 #1661 EGG HARBOR CITY, NJ 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 256 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 474 Oxford ME 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Runnings of Lockport 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Brookdale Ave 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structures Derek International sa 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grattan Line Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ballard - Mid-Atlantic 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
NAT-TCR ODW-San Leandro 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Poet-DSM Project Liberty 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 3400 W Duncan Rd 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital (Nassau Bay, TX) 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aerobraze OKC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ritter Communications - Millington 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Save - Koloa 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Ascend Amphitheater 59 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.

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

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