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

Boston's Best Chimney

Waltham, MA · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boston's Best Chimney runs at 286% 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: 12.9 TCR = 286% of Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services BLS 4.5 · 2y 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 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.29 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

Boston's Best Chimney: 8.6 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2020

Boston's Best Chimney's TCR rose 8.6 from 8.6 in 2019 to 17.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 286% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Pool Doctor
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pool Doctor (0.2 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 12.9 TCR (286% 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: 2019=8.6 · 2020=17.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Boston's Best Chimney falls in its industry

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

Safer than 12% 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 #5 safest of 6 Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) employers in Massachusetts.

Boston's Best Chimney (28 employees, TCR 12.9) 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 (28 employees, TCR 12.9) 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
2020 17.1 4.3 4 0 0
2019 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · MA · Waltham

171 Chimney sweep (i.e., cleaning) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 118 employers in Waltham, 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 Pool Doctor 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patriot Pool & Spa Austin 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axiom Family of Companies 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KM Facility Services LLC 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ocean Spray Carver Receiving Station 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waypoint General Contracting LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masters Touch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pomeroy & Co., Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR RESERVOIR WOODS (MA42) 2,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR 170 Data Drive Work Location-MAAV 1,985 FTE
CITY-NEAR RESERVOIR WOODS-MA42 1,736 FTE
CITY-NEAR Partners Home Care Inc 786 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Mountain Lake 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alden Estates of Shorewood 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rich Metals Company Davenport 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS - Inflight 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Webb Concrete & Building Materials, Inc. Oxford Ready Mix 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Holiday Inn Express 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jan-Eze Plating, Inc. 28 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: 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.