Natural Gas Distribution · Massachusetts

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09

Webster, MA · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural Gas Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09: 4.1 TCR = 339% of Natural Gas Distribution BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 safety composite

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Webster, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.1 · 339% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #29/42
  • PHOTO Cascade Natural Gas …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cascade Natural Gas Bremerton District Office-Operations-Field (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 averages 4.1 TCR (339% of the Natural Gas Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=4 · BLS 1.2

Where Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 falls in its industry

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 42 Natural Gas Distribution employers in Massachusetts.

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 (24 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Mass - Webster-Ma09
Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 (24 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Central Mass - Webster-Ma09 has fewer employees than the Natural Gas Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · MA · Webster

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Webster, 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 Cascade Natural Gas Bremerton District Office-Operations-Field 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Fuel Distribution Dunkirk Servicenter 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yorkville 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berkshire Gas Company 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jeffco Fibres, Inc. 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR WEBSTER #240 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 226_358 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Industrial Packaging 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Aladdin Temp-Rite LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Millwork & Fixtures 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nutrawise 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohcan - Canton 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Broadway Body Shop of New Ulm 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Aggregates, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 704 Channahon Fire Protection District 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luverne School Bus Garage 24 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, 2020. 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.