Fertilizing lawns · Massachusetts

5875 - Boston North

Name: 5875 - Boston North Workplace Safety Data
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Methuen, MA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

5875 - Boston North runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fertilizing lawns workplace, earning a grade A.

5875 - Boston North: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Fertilizing lawns BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5875 - Boston North safety composite

5875 - Boston North scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

5875 - Boston North: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

5875 - Boston North's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Methuen, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #4/58
PHOTO 141401
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 141401 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1004122631

1.5
Asplundh Tree

1.5
Poway 47230

1.5

What this shows 5875 - Boston North averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Fertilizing lawns BLS benchmark).

5875 - Boston North TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 5875 - Boston North falls in its industry

2,875 Fertilizing lawns establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 58 Fertilizing lawns employers in Massachusetts.

5875 - Boston North (79 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5875 - Boston North has more employees than the Fertilizing lawns median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018	2.9	2.9	2	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · Methuen

2,875 Fertilizing lawns 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	141401	WAHIAWA, HI	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1004122631	KENT, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC- 606	KANSAS CITY, MO	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Poway 47230	SAN DIEGO, CA	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Medical Area Total Energy Plant, LLC.	BOSTON	79 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NE DISTRIB CENTER (SUTTON)-MA25	WHITINSVILLE	79 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMESBURY-MA02	AMESBURY	79 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1800	CHELMSFORD	79 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Holy Family Hospital - Methuen	Methuen	1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center	Methuen	406 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Ann's Home, Inc	Methuen	343 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NAI-0033-0033-06652 FAC-06652-METHUEN-MA	Methuen	306 FTE
NAT-TCR	AC Home Depot US	Cranberry Township, PA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harrisburg Branch	Harrisburg, PA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	JLM Advanced Tech. Service	Appleton, WI	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ACS_INDIANAPOLIS_IN	Indianapolis, IN	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jefferson HUB	Jefferson, WI	79 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Iron Hill Brewery- Phoenixville	Phoenixville, PA	79 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IWP, Inc.	Indianapolis, IN	79 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JFSNA at ADM Columbus	Columbus, NE	79 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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