Variety stores · Massachusetts

251 Wareham MA

Wareham, MA · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

251 Wareham MA runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade D.

251 Wareham MA: 6.3 TCR = 184% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

251 Wareham MA safety composite

251 Wareham MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

251 Wareham MA: 4.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2017

251 Wareham MA's TCR rose 4.5 from 4.0 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #60/83
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1740…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1740 KITTANNING, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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251 Wareham MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 251 Wareham MA averages 6.3 TCR (184% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

251 Wareham MA TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 251 Wareham MA falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #60 safest of 83 Variety stores employers in Massachusetts.

251 Wareham MA (68 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 251 Wareham MA
251 Wareham MA (68 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

251 Wareham 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 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Wareham

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 35 employers in Wareham, 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 #1740 KITTANNING, PA 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1019 KANSAS CITY, KS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Runnings DC of Marshall 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1390 Waldorf, MD 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BROCKTON - E ASHLAND ST BLDG-MA07 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perini Management Services, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maverick Construction Corp 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tobey Hospital 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2095 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2095 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wareham Massachusetts 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisenbaker Builder Services - HB 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Intrepid 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 10 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ranchwood Nursing Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Clinton LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Board Mill Operations 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Health 68 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.