Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Lifoam Peabody

Peabody, MA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lifoam Peabody runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lifoam Peabody: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lifoam Peabody safety composite

Lifoam Peabody scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Lifoam Peabody: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2017

Lifoam Peabody's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Peabody, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Dart Container Horse…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dart Container Horse Cave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lifoam Peabody in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lifoam Peabody averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lifoam Peabody TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lifoam Peabody falls in its industry

260 Coolers or ice chests, polysty establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Coolers or ice chests, polysty employers in Massachusetts.

Lifoam Peabody (45 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lifoam Peabody
Lifoam Peabody (45 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Lifoam Peabody has fewer employees than the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · MA · Peabody

260 Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 86 employers in Peabody, 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 Dart Container Horse Cave 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burley XPS 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container, Inc. of KY 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tallmadge Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canal Generating LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON-MA32 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON-MA57 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgewell INC 1,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooksby Village 823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Analogic 8 Centennial Dr Peabody MA 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lahey Clinic North 503 FTE
NAT-TCR Celsus Laboratories 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster - PCA 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bombardier Transportation - Plattsburgh 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S05973 - WM of AR TN AL KY Accounting Office 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Waverly 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.P. Eberlein Co., Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Transit, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton 45 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: 2017, 2016. 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.