Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Distributor Corporation of New England

Malden, MA · ~110 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Distributor Corporation of New England runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
11
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Distributor Corporation of New England's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.0 to the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (92% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Distributor Corporation of New England's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

01234 20162017202020222023 1.22.2 Industry benchmarkDistributor Corporation of New England TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 423730.

Where Distributor Corporation of New England falls in its industry

381 Heating equipment, warm air (i establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Heating equipment, warm air (i employers in Massachusetts.

Trend analysis for Distributor Corporation of New England

Between 2016 and 2023, Distributor Corporation of New England's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.0 to 1.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 23% increase across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.8, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 3.7, a spread of 2.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Distributor Corporation of New England recorded 11 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 11 injuries shown on this page for Distributor Corporation of New England are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423730 - Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 164,000 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Distributor Corporation of New England (this establishment) 2.02 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Central heating equipment, warm-air, merchant wholesalers industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 423730
Massachusetts state avg (all industries) 4.94 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Distributor Corporation of New England to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 4 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 3.7 1.8 4 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Distributor Corporation of New England's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 92% of the Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers benchmark, Distributor Corporation of New England reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Distributor Corporation of New England's safety grade?
Distributor Corporation of New England has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Heating equipment, warm air (i.e. forced air), merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Distributor Corporation of New England reported?
Distributor Corporation of New England has reported 11 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2020, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.