Other Building Material Dealers · Massachusetts

Gardner MA Yard

Gardner, MA · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Gardner MA Yard runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardner MA Yard: 9.1 TCR = 267% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner MA Yard safety composite

Gardner MA Yard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Gardner MA Yard: 4.3 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Gardner MA Yard's TCR rose 5.8 from 4.3 in 2022 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Gardner, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 267% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Lakewood
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakewood (0.3 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

Gardner MA Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner MA Yard averages 9.1 TCR (267% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner MA Yard TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Gardner MA Yard falls in its industry

280 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Massachusetts.

Gardner MA Yard (16 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardner MA Yard
Gardner MA Yard (16 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gardner MA Yard has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 10.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 12.7 6.4 2 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · MA · Gardner

280 Other Building Material Dealers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Lakewood 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gainesville GA Yard 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brooksville FL Yard 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrow GA Yard 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Integrity Development & Construction, Inc. 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARAUSTAR - FITCHBURG MA 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Roofing Inc. 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - Exelon Mystic Power Station - Boston 16 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 Rochester Mills Beer Co 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lodge At Stillwater 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Garfield Memorial Hospital Nursing Care Facility 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Akins Fresh Market-Oroville 9.1 TCR

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. 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.