Laundries, linen and uniform supply · Massachusetts

Century Linen Somerville

Somerville, MA · ~391 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Linen Somerville runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Laundries, linen and uniform supply workplace, earning a grade C.

Century Linen Somerville: 2.5 TCR = 119% of Laundries, linen and uniform supply BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Linen Somerville safety composite

Century Linen Somerville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Century Linen Somerville: 0.5 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Century Linen Somerville's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.5 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Somerville, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 119% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO NOVO Health Services…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~391 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NOVO Health Services - Richmond (0.0 TCR gap)

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Century Linen Somerville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Linen Somerville averages 2.5 TCR (119% of the Laundries, linen and uniform supply BLS benchmark).

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

Century Linen Somerville TCR series: 2022=0.5 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.1

Where Century Linen Somerville falls in its industry

334 Laundries, linen and uniform s establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Laundries, linen and uniform s employers in Massachusetts.

Century Linen Somerville (391 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0100200300400500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Century Linen Somerville
Century Linen Somerville (391 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Century Linen Somerville has more employees than the Laundries, linen and uniform supply median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 2.9 2.9 11 0 0
2023 4.1 2.7 15 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · MA · Somerville

334 Laundries, linen and uniform supply employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 67 employers in Somerville, 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 NOVO Health Services - Richmond 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Linen Supply PHX 200 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Retail Medical - Wilson 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesapeake Uniform Rental, Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith & Nephew Mansfield MA 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2629 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - OWD5 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMARTPAK EQUINE 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass General Brigham Inc 7,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Partners Community Physicians Organization 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cataldo Somerville 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR AllWays Health Partners 486 FTE
NAT-TCR MedVet Chicago 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fragrance Manufacturer 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rig 14 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HC Sparks 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SAX1 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9434 - Albany Fulfillment Center 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allen County Public Library 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Transportation District 1 391 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. 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.