Painting and wallpapering · Massachusetts

First Nick Companies

Woburn, MA · ~105 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Nick Companies runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade D.

First Nick Companies: 3.4 TCR = 120% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Nick Companies safety composite

First Nick Companies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2017→2022

First Nick Companies injury rate improved

First Nick Companies's TCR fell 2.5 from 3.8 in 2017 to 1.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Woburn, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO RC Painting & Sons, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RC Painting & Sons, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Nick Companies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Nick Companies averages 3.4 TCR (120% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

First Nick Companies TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=1.2 · BLS 2.8

Where First Nick Companies falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Painting and wallpapering employers in Massachusetts.

First Nick Companies (105 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Nick Companies
First Nick Companies (105 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

First Nick Companies has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2020 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · MA · Woburn

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 187 employers in Woburn, 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 RC Painting & Sons, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spurgeon Painting, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR COMMERCIAL PAINTING, INC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craftsman Painters & Decorators, Inc 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manafort-Precision, LLC 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Dynamics, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield MA Sheet Plant 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Plating, Inc. 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Woburn_MA 1,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Woburn Merchants, Inc 1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woburn Marshalls Distribution Center 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEI Consultants, Inc. 837 FTE
NAT-TCR CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Arecibo 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Foley Whitehall PA 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SCF Towing 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1232 - West Burlington 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Environmental Landscape Design 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent & Nursing Hospital, INC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid America Steel, Inc 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #890 105 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, 2017. 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.