Home improvement centers · Massachusetts

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc

Name: Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Burlington, MA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home improvement centers workplace, earning a grade C.

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc: 4.0 TCR = 118% of Home improvement centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc safety composite

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc held a steady TCR band

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.1 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Burlington, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 118% of ind

DART 3.9 DART
RANK #44/123
PHOTO Stine Jennings
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stine Jennings (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc averages 4.0 TCR (118% of the Home improvement centers BLS benchmark).

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc falls in its industry

6,309 Home improvement centers establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 123 Home improvement centers employers in Massachusetts.

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc (30 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Friend Building Center of Burlington Inc has fewer employees than the Home improvement centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018	3.9	3.9	1	0	0
2017	4.1	4.1	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MA · Burlington

6,309 Home improvement centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 89 employers in Burlington, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Stine Jennings	JENNINGS, LA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2202 MERRIAM	MERRIAM, KS	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3501 EUBANK	ALBUQUERQUE, NM	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6632 WOODLAND HILLS	WOODLAND HILLS, CA	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	0387 - NBV	WILMINGTON	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bed Bath and Beyond Granite Heights Milford	MILFORD	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Associated Marketing Systems, Inc.	HOLBROOK	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Turner Steel Company, Inc.	WEST BRIDGEWATER	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lahey Hospital and Medical Center	Burlington	4,493 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Burlington, MA	Burlington	4,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lahey Medical Center	Burlington	4,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EMD Millipore Corporation - 400 Summit	Burlington	838 FTE
NAT-TCR	East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Services (Rusk County)	Rusk, TX	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	AgMart Produce, Inc. LELAND, NC	Leland, NC	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Green Bay- 11	Green Bay, WI	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	ShoreCare	Neptune, NJ	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	National Grid	Liverpool, NY	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Thornley's Service Inc.	Johns Island, SC	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arc Twin Cities Brooklyn Center	Brooklyn Center, MN	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Linde - Hammond	Hammond, IN	30 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: 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.