Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Gustavo Preston Company

Chelmsford, MA · ~64 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gustavo Preston Company runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gustavo Preston Company: 3.1 TCR = 141% of Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gustavo Preston Company safety composite

Gustavo Preston Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Gustavo Preston Company: 2.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2023

Gustavo Preston Company's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Chelmsford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 141% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #11/33
  • PHOTO Wellons, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wellons, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gustavo Preston Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gustavo Preston Company averages 3.1 TCR (141% of the Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gustavo Preston Company TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Gustavo Preston Company falls in its industry

853 Plumbing equipment merchant wh establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 33 Plumbing equipment merchant wh employers in Massachusetts.

Gustavo Preston Company (64 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gustavo Preston Company
Gustavo Preston Company (64 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gustavo Preston Company has more employees than the Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.6 2.4 3 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 11.4 9.5 6 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · MA · Chelmsford

853 Plumbing equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 66 employers in Chelmsford, 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 Wellons, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 15 Phoenix 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albuquerque Winsupply 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACE Supply Fresno Branch 19 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE System 7 Wolfers, Inc.-Beverly Office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE kleeberg Mechanical Services LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE William F. Lynch Co., Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Transfer & Storage, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHELMSFORD (MACHE) 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR MACHE - CHELMSFORD 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZOLL Medical 1,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooks Automation US, LLC. 839 FTE
NAT-TCR L&R Industries, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Interior Systems 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AAM-Oxford Manufacturing Facility 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hiawatha 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Albany Senior High 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frazee Care Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cevians LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arc Noble County Foundations, Inc. 64 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, 2022, 2021, 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.