Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services · Massachusetts

Boston's Best Chimney

Dedham, MA · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boston's Best Chimney runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services workplace, earning a grade F.

Boston's Best Chimney: 14.9 TCR = 332% of Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boston's Best Chimney safety composite

Boston's Best Chimney scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Boston's Best Chimney: 6.1 → 29.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 29.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Boston's Best Chimney's TCR rose 23.1 from 6.1 in 2021 to 29.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561790 · Dedham, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 332% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Roof To Deck Restora…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roof To Deck Restoration (0.1 TCR gap)

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Boston's Best Chimney in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boston's Best Chimney averages 14.9 TCR (332% of the Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services BLS benchmark).

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

Boston's Best Chimney TCR series: 2021=6.1 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=29.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Boston's Best Chimney falls in its industry

171 Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) employers in Massachusetts.

Boston's Best Chimney (33 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Boston's Best Chimney
Boston's Best Chimney (33 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Boston's Best Chimney has fewer employees than the Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 29.2 13.0 9 0 0
2023 9.4 3.1 3 0 0
2021 6.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · MA · Dedham

171 Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 60 employers in Dedham, 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 Roof To Deck Restoration 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advantage Pro Services, Inc. 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Groves Ocean Blue 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Property Prep Services, Inc. 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green City Growers 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Holliston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ADAMS-MA27 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DBO2 844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electrical Contractor 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&M Brown Company 558 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMADH01 341 FTE
NAT-TCR C.K. Masonry Co., Inc 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR COS001 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lindenmeyr Houston 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airpark Plastics 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Line Mechanical, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Holsteins, LLC 33 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, 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.