Communion wafer manufacturing · Massachusetts

Jessicas Brick Oven

Methuen, MA · ~131 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jessicas Brick Oven runs at 315% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Communion wafer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Jessicas Brick Oven: 10.4 TCR = 315% of Communion wafer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jessicas Brick Oven safety composite

Jessicas Brick Oven scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Jessicas Brick Oven: 1.8 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Jessicas Brick Oven's TCR rose 13.4 from 1.8 in 2022 to 15.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Methuen, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 315% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #28/32
  • PHOTO Youngstown Bakery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Youngstown Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jessicas Brick Oven in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jessicas Brick Oven averages 10.4 TCR (315% of the Communion wafer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Jessicas Brick Oven TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=15.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Jessicas Brick Oven falls in its industry

1,014 Communion wafer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #28 safest of 32 Communion wafer manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Jessicas Brick Oven (131 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 01,0002,0003,000 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Jessicas Brick Oven
Jessicas Brick Oven (131 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Jessicas Brick Oven has more employees than the Communion wafer manufacturing 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
2024 15.2 4.3 14 0 0
2023 14.3 3.9 11 0 0
2022 1.8 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MA · Methuen

1,014 Communion wafer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 53 employers in Methuen, 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 Youngstown Bakery 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bays Chicago 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPECIALTY BAKERY OF TULSA 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loveland Plant 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DGI Communications, LLC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sagamore Plumbing & Heating 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4047 Devens Box Plant 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Akcea Therapeutics 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Family Hospital - Methuen 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Ann's Home, Inc 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-06652 FAC-06652-METHUEN-MA 306 FTE
NAT-TCR NorTerra-Idaho 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Agriland FS - Orient 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR C035 Circleville 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR P. Kay Metal Lewiston 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 800 Market 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial First, Inc. 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Grocer of LaSalle 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0720 Kansas City 131 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. 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.