Home Centers · Massachusetts

8979 Chelsea Ma

Chelsea, MA · ~133 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

8979 Chelsea Ma runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade D.

8979 Chelsea Ma: 4.9 TCR = 145% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

8979 Chelsea Ma safety composite

8979 Chelsea Ma scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−4.5

2022→2023

8979 Chelsea Ma injury rate improved

8979 Chelsea Ma's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.2 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.2 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Chelsea, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #72/123
  • PHOTO 1658 LOWE S OF WOODB…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1658 LOWE S OF WOODBRIDGE NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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8979 Chelsea Ma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 8979 Chelsea Ma averages 4.9 TCR (145% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

8979 Chelsea Ma TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 8979 Chelsea Ma falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 123 Home Centers employers in Massachusetts.

8979 Chelsea Ma (133 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 8979 Chelsea Ma
8979 Chelsea Ma (133 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

8979 Chelsea Ma has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher 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
2023 2.7 1.3 4 0 0
2022 7.2 6.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MA · Chelsea

6,309 Home Centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 52 employers in Chelsea, 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 1658 LOWE S OF WOODBRIDGE NJ 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4626 VA BEACHPRINCESS ANNE 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2672 SHREWSBURY 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2479 LOWE S OF BRIGHTON CO 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plumb House, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Atlantic Red Crab Company LLC 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE REILY FOODS COMPANY - MALDEN' 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #32 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR State Garden, Inc. 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kayem Foods, Inc 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 240055-BOS-CHELSEA CARRIER ANNEX 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #2968 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2172 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotwire Communications - Orlando Warehouse 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Inmar - 4095 Lakeland 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE USM Store #937 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE RiverValley Hospital 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE SARAH SENECA Residential Services, Inc. 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles C Parks Company 133 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: 2023, 2022. 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.