Marijuana stores, medical or recreational · Massachusetts

Ascend Newton

Newton, MA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend Newton runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Marijuana stores, medical or recreational workplace, earning a grade B.

Ascend Newton: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Marijuana stores, medical or recreational BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend Newton safety composite

Ascend Newton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 Newton: 0.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Ascend Newton's TCR rose 5.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Prime Wellness of CT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prime Wellness of CT, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ascend Newton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend Newton averages 2.5 TCR (75% 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 Newton TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Ascend Newton falls in its industry

53 Marijuana stores, medical or r establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #3 safest of 4 Marijuana stores, medical or r employers in Massachusetts.

Ascend Newton (27 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Newton
Ascend Newton (27 employees, TCR 2.5) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ascend Newton has fewer 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 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

459991 · MA · Newton

53 Marijuana stores, medical or recreational employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 44 employers in Newton, 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 Prime Wellness of CT, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay LLC - Lancaster 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&B Wellness, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ascend Ohio St Chicago 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Profile - Dorchester 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES Salem Harbor Station 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ANDOVER-METHUEN-MA30 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEWKSBURY-MA47 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Wellesley Hospital 3,740 FTE
CITY-NEAR MGB Home Care (formerly known as Partners Healthcare at Home) 862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Newton 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR The RMR Group LLC 490 FTE
NAT-TCR Renal Home Patient - P and F (Waukegan IL USA - P and F) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Santa Cruz 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR League City 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mapei West Chicago 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eagle Eye Nogales 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluegrass Truss Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pfizer 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elcon Electric Incorporated 27 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.