Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Blue Q

Pittsfield, MA · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Q runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Q: 2.2 TCR = 100% of Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Q safety composite

Blue Q scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Blue Q: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Blue Q's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Pittsfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Winston Products LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winston Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Q in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Q averages 2.2 TCR (100% of the Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Q TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Q falls in its industry

301 Bags, textile, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 10 Bags, textile, merchant wholes employers in Massachusetts.

Blue Q (51 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Q
Blue Q (51 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Blue Q has fewer employees than the Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.5 1 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · MA · Pittsfield

301 Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 94 employers in Pittsfield, 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 Winston Products LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Louis 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Callico Distributors, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc. 56 BVA 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benevento Sand & Stone Corp 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Day Boston 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Paving Company, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lazaro Paving Corp. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springside Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center 3,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMAPF01 1,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkshire County Arc, Inc. 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMAPFB1 572 FTE
NAT-TCR Pid, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cole Haan Greenland NH 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KU Operations Center- Stone Rd 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Appli-tec, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Claremore 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemisphere Corporation 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawson-Fisher Associates P.C. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE DB Schenker 51 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.