Veterinary Services · Massachusetts

Gardner Animal Care Center

Gardner, MA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Animal Care Center runs at 3004% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinary Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardner Animal Care Center: 15.0 TCR = 3004% of Veterinary Services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Animal Care Center safety composite

Gardner Animal Care Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 15.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2021→2023

Gardner Animal Care Center injury rate improved

Gardner Animal Care Center's TCR fell 0.5 from 15.3 in 2021 to 14.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=15.3 · 2023=14.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Gardner, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 3004% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Ralston Veterinary C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ralston Veterinary Clinic (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Animal Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Animal Care Center averages 15.0 TCR (3004% of the Veterinary Services BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner Animal Care Center TCR series: 2021=15.3 · 2023=14.8 · BLS 0.5

Where Gardner Animal Care Center falls in its industry

261 Veterinary Services establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Veterinary Services employers in Massachusetts.

Gardner Animal Care Center (45 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardner Animal Care Center
Gardner Animal Care Center (45 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Gardner Animal Care Center has more employees than the Veterinary Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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
2023 14.8 0.0 3 0 0
2021 15.3 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · MA · Gardner

261 Veterinary Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 37 employers in Gardner, 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 Ralston Veterinary Clinic 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Dallas Veterinary Hospital 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6276-62768000-005309 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Naperville Animal Hospital 14.7 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 Heywood Hospital 1,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2155 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2155 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR GVNA HealthCare Inc 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Mail Service Inc DBA Modern Express 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellingham, WA 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02120 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02684 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Towerstream Corp. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mancini's Bakery 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bakersfield 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hearing Components, 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: 2023, 2021. 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.