Hospice · Massachusetts

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc.

Pittsfield, MA · ~74 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospice workplace, earning a grade D.

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 135% of Hospice BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. safety composite

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc.: 5.5 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2021

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 5.5 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Pittsfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #114/159
  • PHOTO Masonicare Home Heal…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Masonicare Home Health & Hospice - Greater Hartford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (135% of the Hospice BLS benchmark).

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

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=12.9 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 5.2

Where Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #114 safest of 159 Hospice employers in Massachusetts.

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. (74 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc.
Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. (74 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hospice Care in the Berkshires, Inc. has more employees than the Hospice median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 7.8 7.8 3 1 0
2020 12.9 11.0 5 2 0
2019 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2017 5.5 5.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Pittsfield

3,635 Hospice employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 94 employers in Pittsfield, 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 Masonicare Home Health & Hospice - Greater Hartford 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HCR Inc. dba Halo Hospice 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Visiting Nurse Association Health Services 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOC - ATH 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Medicinals, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boston Solar Company LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPS/Walsh JV 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Bay State Construction Co., INc. 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springside Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center 3,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMAPF01 1,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkshire County Arc, Inc. 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMAPFB1 572 FTE
NAT-TCR 044/Northlake 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Brothers Bakeries Inc of TN 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Area Community Resources 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stuart 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clear View Bag Co., Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redstone@Home 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Forest 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Extended Care Hospital of Monroe 74 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.