Home health care agencies · Massachusetts

Hospice Services of Western Mass

Feeding Hills, MA · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospice Services of Western Mass runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

Hospice Services of Western Mass: 10.8 TCR = 208% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospice Services of Western Mass safety composite

Hospice Services of Western Mass scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−3.2

2016→2019

Hospice Services of Western Mass injury rate improved

Hospice Services of Western Mass's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 29.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2018=29.3 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Feeding Hills, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 208% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #146/159
  • PHOTO Health at Home Hospi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Health at Home Hospice-Austin, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospice Services of Western Mass in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospice Services of Western Mass averages 10.8 TCR (208% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Hospice Services of Western Mass TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2018=29.3 · 2019=0 · BLS 5.2

Where Hospice Services of Western Mass falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #146 safest of 159 Home health care agencies employers in Massachusetts.

Hospice Services of Western Mass (51 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Services of Western Mass
Hospice Services of Western Mass (51 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hospice Services of Western Mass has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 29.3 22.8 9 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Feeding Hills

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 3 employers in Feeding Hills, 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 Health at Home Hospice-Austin, LLC 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concord Regional VNA 30P 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Korean Women's Association - Grays Harbor 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Hospice 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benevento Sand & Stone Corp 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Day Boston 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Paving Company, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lazaro Paving Corp. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR EG PARTNERS LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR T&R Wholesale Foods, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-TCR CLARO / PRT - Bairoa 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Plant 17 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DreamMore Resort 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudy Road PRTF 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benchmark Electronics, Inc - Austin TX Division 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Departamento De Finanzas 13103 00 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE #57 Art Van Traverse City 51 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: 2019, 2018, 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.