Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated · Massachusetts

Costa Fruit and Produce Company

Charlestown, MA · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Costa Fruit and Produce Company runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade F.

Costa Fruit and Produce Company: 12.3 TCR = 212% of Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Costa Fruit and Produce Company safety composite

Costa Fruit and Produce Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Costa Fruit and Produce Company: 8.9 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2019

Costa Fruit and Produce Company's TCR rose 6.9 from 8.9 in 2018 to 15.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Charlestown, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 212% of ind

  • DART 15.2 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO Perry Distribution C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perry Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Costa Fruit and Produce Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Costa Fruit and Produce Company averages 12.3 TCR (212% of the Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Costa Fruit and Produce Company TCR series: 2018=8.9 · 2019=15.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Costa Fruit and Produce Company falls in its industry

1,039 Private warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Private warehousing and storag employers in Massachusetts.

Costa Fruit and Produce Company (180 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Costa Fruit and Produce Company
Costa Fruit and Produce Company (180 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Costa Fruit and Produce Company has more employees than the Private warehousing and storage, refrige median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2019 15.8 15.2 28 0 0
2018 8.9 7.5 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MA · Charlestown

1,039 Private warehousing and storage, refrigerated employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 19 employers in Charlestown, 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 Perry Distribution Center 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRODUCE WAREHOUSE 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dawn Foods Northeast 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Co 19 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rich Products Salem 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bete Fog Nozzle, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allegro MicroSystems, LLC (MAR) 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE MANHEIM NEW ENGLAND 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston 1,637 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Automotive Inc 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gentle Giant Moving Company Charlestown 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10509 Charlestown 174 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Azalea Trails Assisted Living & Memory Care 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pendleton Mill 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HFC - Hopkinsville 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayshore Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Dorado Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mark Twain Library 180 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.