Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts
BellSimons: Plamer
Palmer, MA · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
BellSimons: Plamer runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.
BellSimons: Plamer: 5.3 TCR = 241% of Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)
BellSimons: Plamer safety composite
BellSimons: Plamer scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).
22/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 5.3 per 100 workers
Safer than 20% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 10.61 per 100 workers
Safer than 3% 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
BellSimons: Plamer: 0.0 → 10.6 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024
BellSimons: Plamer's TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 423730 · Palmer, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 241% of ind
- DART 10.6 DART
- RANK #6/7
- PHOTO Orlando-208
- BOOK 2y book
- INJ 3 inj
- SIZE ~31 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Orlando-208 (0.0 TCR gap)
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BellSimons: Plamer in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Blevins 01 Nas
Blevins 01 Nashville
5.4 TCR
- This site
BellSimons: Plamer
5.3 TCR
- Orlando-208
Orlando-208
5.3 TCR
- Team Air Distr
Team Air Distributing, INC Gallatin
5.3 TCR
- Brock Air Prod
Brock Air Products, Inc. - Dayton Warehouse
5.2 TCR
What this shows BellSimons: Plamer averages 5.3 TCR (241% of the Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).
BellSimons: Plamer TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 2.2
Where BellSimons: Plamer falls in its industry
290 Central heating equipment, war establishmentsSafer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.
Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Central heating equipment, war employers in Massachusetts.
BellSimons: Plamer has fewer employees than the Central heating equipment, warm-air, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
423730 · MA · Palmer
290 Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, 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 | Orlando-208 | 5.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Team Air Distributing, INC Gallatin | 5.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Blevins 01 Nashville | 5.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Brock Air Products, Inc. - Dayton Warehouse | 5.2 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | MILLBURY LEARNING CENTER-MA22 | 31 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | One Tech Circle | 31 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Raffles Unit 28C 40 Trinity Place | 31 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Biotech Builders Group | 31 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital | 676 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital | 668 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Northern Tree Service, LLC | 189 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Northern General Contractors Inc | 168 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Nimsgern Steel Corp. | 5.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | AGP Aberdeen Soy | 5.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Comefri USA Inc. | 5.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Calumet | 5.3 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | USA Melbourne 1 Air Terminal Pkwy | 31 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | USA Colton 1700 W Valley Blvd | 31 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Chickasha | 31 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Marquis Gardens Place | 31 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.