Marijuana stores, medical or recreational · Massachusetts

Ascend New Bedford

New Bedford, MA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend New Bedford runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Marijuana stores, medical or recreational workplace, earning a grade A.

Ascend New Bedford: 1.3 TCR = 37% of Marijuana stores, medical or recreational BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend New Bedford safety composite

Ascend New Bedford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Ascend New Bedford: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ascend New Bedford's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 459991 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Sunnyside Lakeview
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunnyside Lakeview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascend New Bedford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend New Bedford averages 1.3 TCR (37% of the Marijuana stores, medical or recreational BLS benchmark).

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

Ascend New Bedford TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Ascend New Bedford falls in its industry

53 Marijuana stores, medical or r establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Marijuana stores, medical or r employers in Massachusetts.

Ascend New Bedford (54 employees, TCR 1.3) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 3.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 25 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascend New Bedford
Ascend New Bedford (54 employees, TCR 1.3) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ascend New Bedford has more employees than the Marijuana stores, medical or recreationa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

459991 · MA · New Bedford

53 Marijuana stores, medical or recreational employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, 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 Sunnyside Lakeview 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver State Relief Sparks 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunnyside Cincinnati 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Retail - Chandler 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Pittsfield 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 130 West Street Waltham-MAAG 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keith Construction Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truss Engineering Corporation 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR Naumes, Inc. Corporate Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Yonkers 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain Terre Haute IN 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ala Moana 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Preferred Electrical Contractors, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Pittsburgh 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Linden 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chubbuck 54 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. 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.