Alternative fuels, direct selling · Massachusetts

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc.

Name: Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Acton, MA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 18.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. runs at 546% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alternative fuels, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc.: 18.6 TCR = 546% of Alternative fuels, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. safety composite

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 18.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc.: 13.3 → 23.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc.'s TCR rose 10.6 from 13.3 in 2023 to 23.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 457210 · Acton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.6 · 546% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/5
PHOTO R31 Asheville NC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R31 Asheville NC (0.9 TCR gap)

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18.6
R31 Asheville

17.7
R22 Dayton OH

16.5
R21 Washington

15.8
R22 Central Pe

15.5

What this shows Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. averages 18.6 TCR (546% of the Alternative fuels, direct selling BLS benchmark).

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. TCR series: 2023=13.3 · 2024=23.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. falls in its industry

71 Alternative fuels, direct sell establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade F

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 5 Alternative fuels, direct sell employers in Massachusetts.

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 18.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. has fewer employees than the Alternative fuels, direct selling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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	23.9	0.0	1	0	0
2023	13.3	6.6	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

457210 · MA · Acton

71 Alternative fuels, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 31 employers in Acton, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	R31 Asheville NC	ASHEVILLE, NC	17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R22 Dayton OH	ENON, OH	16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R21 Washington NJ	WASHINGTON, NJ	15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R22 Central Pennsylvania, PA	EBENSBURG, PA	15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GREAT BARRINGTON-MA11	GREAT BARRINGTON	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HANOVER-MA12	HANOVER	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eversource - Marshfield	MARSHFIELD	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Knollmeyer Building Corp. - 01	NORTH ANDOVER	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hayward Road	Acton	409 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ROCHE BROS - ACTON	Acton	200 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Acton	Acton	192 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Life Care Center of Acton	Acton	170 FTE
NAT-TCR	R&R King Logging Inc	Florence, OR	18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Superior Comfort, Inc.	Bristol, RI	18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital	Tacoma, WA	18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Urbana	Urbana, IL	18.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Zeyon, Inc	Erie, PA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	W.M. Davis INC.	Hollywood, MD	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	General Iron & Steel, Inc.	Denver, CO	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carolina Stone Distributors	Morrisville, NC	25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.