Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant

Northborough, MA · ~45 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant safety composite

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant: 4.3 → 25.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 25.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3.82× in 2024

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant's TCR rose 21.6 from 4.3 in 2016 to 25.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Northborough, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 25.8 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO George P Johnson Smy…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: George P Johnson Smyrna (0.0 TCR gap)

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Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.4 · 2024=25.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 5 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Massachusetts.

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant (45 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant
Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant (45 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Expansion Opportunities Northboro Physical Plant has fewer employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 25.8 25.8 3 0 0
2023 11.4 11.4 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · MA · Northborough

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 42 employers in Northborough, 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 George P Johnson Smyrna 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutch 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sportable Scoreboards, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR YESCO LLC - Sacramento, CA Establishment 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canal Generating LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON-MA32 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON-MA57 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORTHBORO-MA33 983 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5015 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Northborough 058 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OWD5 391 FTE
NAT-TCR Structured Foundation Repairs Holdings, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 210 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vistar Rocky Mountain - 1003 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Electric 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loading Central -Est 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madeira USA New Hampshire 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fischer Foods of New York, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspen Interiors, Inc. 45 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.