Hospice care services, in home · Massachusetts

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice

Northampton, MA · ~114 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade D.

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice: 7.4 TCR = 142% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice safety composite

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2020→2024

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice injury rate improved

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.9 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.9 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Northampton, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #119/159
  • PHOTO Henry Ford Home Heal…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henry Ford Home Health Care East Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice averages 7.4 TCR (142% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

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

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice TCR series: 2020=5.9 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 5.2

Where Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 159 Hospice care services, in home employers in Massachusetts.

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice (114 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice
Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice (114 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice has more employees than the Hospice care services, in home median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.6 3.5 4 0 0
2023 9.6 6.0 8 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2021 14.4 13.2 12 0 0
2020 5.9 5.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Northampton

3,635 Hospice care services, in home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 40 employers in Northampton, 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 Henry Ford Home Health Care East Office 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VB Frederick Center 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hospice of Chattanooga 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chandler Hospice 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monroe Bridge Office 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston, MA HVAC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automated Logic Controls (New England) 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL 1,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooley Dickinson Practice Assoc. 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON PRACTICE ASSOCIATES 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coca-Cola Northampton 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Market Of Choice #1 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wvelk - Elkins 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyglt - Gillette Facility 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro Independent 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson County Service Center 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleco Corporation 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tropichem Research Labs LLC 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 731 Festus 114 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.