Food Service Contractors · Massachusetts

Boston Central Kitchen

Woburn, MA · ~107 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boston Central Kitchen runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Boston Central Kitchen: 7.7 TCR = 257% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boston Central Kitchen safety composite

Boston Central Kitchen scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−26.8

2021→2024

Boston Central Kitchen injury rate improved

Boston Central Kitchen's TCR fell 26.8 from 27.8 in 2021 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=27.8 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Woburn, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 257% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #172/192
  • PHOTO Shawano School Distr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shawano School District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boston Central Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boston Central Kitchen averages 7.7 TCR (257% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Boston Central Kitchen TCR series: 2021=27.8 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.0

Where Boston Central Kitchen falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #172 safest of 192 Food Service Contractors employers in Massachusetts.

Boston Central Kitchen (107 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Boston Central Kitchen
Boston Central Kitchen (107 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Boston Central Kitchen has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2021 27.8 27.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · MA · Woburn

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 187 employers in Woburn, 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 Shawano School District 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAYO CLINIC EAU CLAIRE 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moorings Pk-Grey Oak 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FALCN MGMT 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Fall River 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enfield Enterprises, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fernandes Masonry 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE U. S. Pavement Services LLC 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Woburn_MA 1,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Woburn Merchants, Inc 1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woburn Marshalls Distribution Center 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEI Consultants, Inc. 837 FTE
NAT-TCR Advance Poured Walls 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Landmark Commons 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford Carrollton Memory Care, LTD 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Double D 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Isle #473 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franks Super Market 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSI West 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pruitthealth Farmville 107 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. 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.