1 · Massachusetts

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma

Fitchburg, MA · ~16 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 1 workplace, earning a grade D.

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma: 4.6 TCR = 163% of 1 BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma safety composite

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−9.6

2016→2024

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma injury rate improved

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma's TCR fell 9.6 from 14.4 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.4 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Fitchburg, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Frontier-Kemper-JV …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frontier-Kemper-JV Purple line 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma averages 4.6 TCR (163% of the 1 BLS benchmark).

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

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma TCR series: 2016=14.4 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma falls in its industry

932 1 establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 1 employers in Massachusetts.

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma (16 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma
Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma (16 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Caraustar - Fitchburg Ma has fewer employees than the 1 median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 14.4 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · MA · Fitchburg

932 1 employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Frontier-Kemper-JV Purple line 3 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Park Conveyance 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tartaglia Railroad Services Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Location 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Integrity Development & Construction, Inc. 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Roofing Inc. 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - Exelon Mystic Power Station - Boston 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE EQI Logistics 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodridge Hospital 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudapack Metal Treating, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Mo 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AZZ Surface Technologies - Tampa, LLC 4.6 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.