Transportation · Massachusetts

ABF Freight 189

West Bridgewater, MA · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 189 runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 189: 13.8 TCR = 308% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 189 safety composite

ABF Freight 189 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2016→2024

ABF Freight 189 injury rate improved

ABF Freight 189's TCR fell 4.0 from 18.0 in 2016 to 14.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 28.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.0 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2022=28.8 · 2023=12.2 · 2024=14.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · West Bridgewater, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 308% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #36/42
  • PHOTO Denison, IA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denison, IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 189 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 189 averages 13.8 TCR (308% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 189 TCR series: 2016=18 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=8.7 · 2022=28.8 · 2023=12.2 · 2024=14 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 189 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 42 Transportation employers in Massachusetts.

ABF Freight 189 (32 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Freight 189
ABF Freight 189 (32 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 189 has fewer employees than the Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 14.0 8.4 5 0 0
2023 12.2 12.2 5 0 0
2022 28.8 28.8 11 0 0
2020 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2019 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2018 11.9 11.9 4 0 0
2017 10.4 10.4 4 0 0
2016 18.0 18.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MA · West Bridgewater

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 31 employers in West Bridgewater, 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 Denison, IA 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 072 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Freight 177 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Myers FL FXFE-FMY 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gradiant Corp 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE FirstLight Power 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fore River Energy Center 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams Building Company, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centerline Communications 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #70 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of West Bridgewater 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schumacher Companies 255 FTE
NAT-TCR A.B. Munroe Dairy Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR T.F. Powers Construction, Co. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Processing Services, LLC 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 055 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 026 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE SupplyOne Pittsburgh 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeMars 32 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.