Insulation materials (except wood) merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Boston

Foxborough, MA · ~189 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boston runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Insulation materials (except wood) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Boston: 7.3 TCR = 334% of Insulation materials (except wood) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boston safety composite

Boston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−6.2

2016→2024

Boston injury rate improved

Boston's TCR fell 6.2 from 6.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=19.0 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423330 · Foxborough, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 334% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Building Products In…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Building Products Inc. of SD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boston averages 7.3 TCR (334% of the Insulation materials (except wood) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Boston TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=19 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Boston falls in its industry

953 Insulation materials (except w establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Insulation materials (except w employers in Massachusetts.

Boston (189 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 31 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Boston
Boston (189 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 31 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Boston has more employees than the Insulation materials (except wood) merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2022 19.0 15.2 1 4 0
2021 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2019 6.9 5.2 20 0 0
2018 4.6 2.0 14 0 0
2016 6.2 3.7 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423330 · MA · Foxborough

953 Insulation materials (except wood) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 14 employers in Foxborough, 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 Building Products Inc. of SD 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 483 ABC Supply Co., Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABC Supply 495 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 416 ABC Supply Co., inc. 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waltham 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE 857-NiSource-Springfield MA 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monogram Gourmet Foods, LLC - 301 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazen Paper Company 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gillette Stadium 2,695 FTE
CITY-NEAR S05951 - WM of New England Area Office 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR CBS Scene Patriot Place LLC 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trader Joe's 0528 Foxborough 130 FTE
NAT-TCR The Ohio Art Company 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oro Grande 12742 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R & D Meat, LTD 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - Philadelphia 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Asheville - Parks and Recreation 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merjent, Inc. 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative 189 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.