Herb farming, grown under cover · Massachusetts

Insa Salem

Salem, MA · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insa Salem runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Herb farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade C.

Insa Salem: 4.2 TCR = 93% of Herb farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insa Salem safety composite

Insa Salem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Insa Salem: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2022

Insa Salem's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Salem, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 93% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO Blairsville
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blairsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insa Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insa Salem averages 4.2 TCR (93% of the Herb farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Insa Salem TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Insa Salem falls in its industry

251 Herb farming, grown under cove establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 23 Herb farming, grown under cove employers in Massachusetts.

Insa Salem (53 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insa Salem
Insa Salem (53 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Insa Salem has fewer employees than the Herb farming, grown under cover median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2022 2.9 2.9 0 1 0
2021 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2020 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · MA · Salem

251 Herb farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 56 employers in Salem, 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 Blairsville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilgenburg Greenhouses 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tahoe Hydro 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gotham Greens LLC 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northfield Mountain 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campanelli 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.P. Cummings Construction Company 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albanese D & S Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Medical Center Salem 3,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Physicians Group 1,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Physician's Group 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #58 378 FTE
NAT-TCR Meridian Health Pediatrics 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Streator Dependable Manufacturing 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Lanier Village Estates 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR O-Lakeland Printing 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG363 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Courts of Kenwood 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE PST Maine 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Courts of West Palm Beach 53 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.