Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Massachusetts

42141b - Chicopee

Chicopee, MA · ~48 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

42141b - Chicopee runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

42141b - Chicopee: 5.4 TCR = 246% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

42141b - Chicopee safety composite

42141b - Chicopee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−1.4

2016→2021

42141b - Chicopee injury rate improved

42141b - Chicopee's TCR fell 1.4 from 5.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=19.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO CC 49835 VISALIA FAC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CC 49835 VISALIA FAC (0.0 TCR gap)

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42141b - Chicopee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 42141b - Chicopee averages 5.4 TCR (246% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

42141b - Chicopee TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=4 · 2018=19.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where 42141b - Chicopee falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Massachusetts.

42141b - Chicopee (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 42141b - Chicopee
42141b - Chicopee (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

42141b - Chicopee has fewer employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 19.8 7.9 10 0 0
2017 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2016 5.1 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · MA · Chicopee

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers 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 CC 49835 VISALIA FAC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR POCASSET 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thayer Distribution 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42886 - VALLEY FORGE DC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Payne|Bouchier Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rise Construction Management 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-South Dennis-Western Boulevard 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth MA 48 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 Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 073 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacks Bay Road 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilson Insulation #721 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherry Hill Apartments, LLLP 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 235 Buffalo Road 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43341u - Kc North Riverside 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43281h - Davenport 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 48 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, 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.