Not required · Massachusetts

Essex County Correctional Facility

Middleton, MA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex County Correctional Facility runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Not required workplace, earning a grade D.

Essex County Correctional Facility: 6.5 TCR = 171% of Not required BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex County Correctional Facility safety composite

Essex County Correctional Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Essex County Correctional Facility: 3.1 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Essex County Correctional Facility's TCR rose 6.8 from 3.1 in 2023 to 9.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Middleton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 171% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #45/60
  • PHOTO 875 Old Country Road
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 875 Old Country Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essex County Correctional Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex County Correctional Facility averages 6.5 TCR (171% of the Not required BLS benchmark).

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

Essex County Correctional Facility TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Essex County Correctional Facility falls in its industry

2,836 Not required establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 60 Not required employers in Massachusetts.

Essex County Correctional Facility (63 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex County Correctional Facility
Essex County Correctional Facility (63 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Essex County Correctional Facility has more employees than the Not required median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 9.9 9.9 4 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · MA · Middleton

2,836 Not required employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 11 employers in Middleton, 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 875 Old Country Road 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunes Family Health Care 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moorhead Clinic 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5505 Nesconset Hwy 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Red Fire Farm 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGE 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window World Belchertown 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.C. Construction, Inc. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #45 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Civil, Inc. 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEL Corp Middleton 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEL Corporation 120 FTE
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Hamilton 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0323 - Cupertino De Anza Blvd 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2040 - Tampa Central Walter's Crossing 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harman Huffman Construction Group, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Strategic Solution Services Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Valley Services, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC 99 - Shawnee 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sign Pro Inc 63 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.