Building insulation contractors · Massachusetts

HWE Woburn Insulation

Woburn, MA · ~88 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HWE Woburn Insulation runs at 400% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building insulation contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

HWE Woburn Insulation: 11.2 TCR = 400% of Building insulation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HWE Woburn Insulation safety composite

HWE Woburn Insulation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HWE Woburn Insulation: 4.2 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

HWE Woburn Insulation's TCR rose 7.5 from 4.2 in 2021 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Woburn, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 400% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #28/34
  • PHOTO Wehmeier Drywall & P…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wehmeier Drywall & Painting, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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HWE Woburn Insulation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HWE Woburn Insulation averages 11.2 TCR (400% of the Building insulation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

HWE Woburn Insulation TCR series: 2021=4.2 · 2022=12 · 2023=17 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 2.8

Where HWE Woburn Insulation falls in its industry

1,613 Building insulation contractor establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 34 Building insulation contractor employers in Massachusetts.

HWE Woburn Insulation (88 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HWE Woburn Insulation
HWE Woburn Insulation (88 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

HWE Woburn Insulation has more employees than the Building insulation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 11.6 8.7 8 0 0
2023 17.0 14.0 17 0 0
2022 12.0 12.0 10 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MA · Woburn

1,613 Building insulation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 187 employers in Woburn, 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 Wehmeier Drywall & Painting, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arlington TX Inst Insul 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sierra Insulation Contractors 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Construction Group, Inc. - Union City 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Hadley 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Bernardston 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.A. Senecal Electrical Services, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Woburn_MA 1,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Woburn Merchants, Inc 1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woburn Marshalls Distribution Center 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEI Consultants, Inc. 837 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR American Steel Treating 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hungry Howie's Distributing, Inc. Florida 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Bakery 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camp FIMFO Texas Hill Country 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chancellors Village 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DDE6 88 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.