Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling · Massachusetts

Cubby Oil

Somerville, MA · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cubby Oil runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade D.

Cubby Oil: 5.9 TCR = 173% of Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cubby Oil safety composite

Cubby Oil scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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)
D 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Cubby Oil: 5.9 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2022

Cubby Oil's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.9 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Somerville, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 173% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #7/21
  • PHOTO Yankee Propane
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yankee Propane (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cubby Oil in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cubby Oil averages 5.9 TCR (173% of the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Cubby Oil TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.2 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=7.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Cubby Oil falls in its industry

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 21 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale employers in Massachusetts.

Cubby Oil (41 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cubby Oil
Cubby Oil (41 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Cubby Oil has more employees than the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2022 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2021 11.1 8.3 4 0 0
2020 8.2 0.0 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · MA · Somerville

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling 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 Yankee Propane 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPICER PLUS INC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petro Long Island - Hicksville 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sawyer Gas - Jacksonville, FL 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pure Industries, Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE G-FAM, Corp dba Paul Davis Restoration of Boston South & Rhode Island 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeFelice Corp. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-Agawam-Silver Street 41 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 020325-Anc-Main Office Sta 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 548054-Spokane Wa P&Dc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 052743-Fol-El Dorado Hills Sta 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 038883-Tuc-Casas Adobes 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3734 Sun Mart Foods (Falls City, Ne) 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 04-Oakfield 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aluminum Die Casting CO/, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-11DG029 41 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.