Warehousing, refrigerated · Massachusetts

Home Market Foods - Norton

Norton, MA · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Market Foods - Norton runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade D.

Home Market Foods - Norton: 7.8 TCR = 135% of Warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Market Foods - Norton safety composite

Home Market Foods - Norton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.74 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

−15.7

2018→2024

Home Market Foods - Norton injury rate improved

Home Market Foods - Norton's TCR fell 15.7 from 18.4 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=18.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=6.5 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Norton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO Nor-Am Cold Storage …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nor-Am Cold Storage - Saint Joseph C (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Market Foods - Norton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Market Foods - Norton averages 7.8 TCR (135% of the Warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Home Market Foods - Norton TCR series: 2018=18.4 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=6.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 5.8

Where Home Market Foods - Norton falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 Warehousing, refrigerated employers in Massachusetts.

Home Market Foods - Norton (24 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Home Market Foods - Norton
Home Market Foods - Norton (24 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Home Market Foods - Norton has fewer employees than the Warehousing, refrigerated median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2018 18.4 18.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MA · Norton

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 33 employers in Norton, 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 Nor-Am Cold Storage - Saint Joseph C 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seafrigo Coldstorage Newark Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Londonderry Freezer Warehouse 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR AI Distribution Center 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR New England Ice Cream Corporation 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR S09205 - Norton Hauling 181 FTE
NAT-TCR New Ravenna 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fargo Truss Systems 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beckley ARH Hospital 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Erecting Services 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dorsey Excavating Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Related Management Company LP Ocean Park Apartments 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Related Management Company LP Fifteen Fifty 24 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: 2024, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.