All Other General Merchandise Stores · Massachusetts

3491

Methuen, MA · ~163 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

3491 runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

3491: 4.7 TCR = 137% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

3491 safety composite

3491 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

3491: 2.2 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2021

3491's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.2 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Methuen, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 137% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #45/83
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1911…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1911 GLENDALE, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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3491 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 3491 averages 4.7 TCR (137% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

3491 TCR series: 2018=2.2 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=5 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 3491 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #45 safest of 83 All Other General Merchandise employers in Massachusetts.

3491 (163 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 3491
3491 (163 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

3491 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise 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
2021 4.3 4.3 5 1 0
2020 5.0 3.3 5 1 0
2019 7.1 2.4 9 0 0
2018 2.2 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Methuen

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 53 employers in Methuen, 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 #1911 GLENDALE, AZ 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4574 Sonora, CA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots #5482 Lynchburg, VA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4060 CUDAHY, CA 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sira Naturals, Inc 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE STACYS PLANT 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holliston MFG (GTS, HTAS) 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE SencorpWhite Inc 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Family Hospital - Methuen 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Ann's Home, Inc 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-06652 FAC-06652-METHUEN-MA 306 FTE
NAT-TCR E&H Conveyors Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 60 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Office of Aging and Disabled Services 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CAN 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Matthews Granite- Star / Elite 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE US172: Philadelphia 544 - SG 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villa Pueblo Senior Living Community 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1285 - Lincoln Ne Whse 163 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.