Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · Massachusetts

Lowell Plant

Lowell, MA · ~39 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowell Plant runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowell Plant: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowell Plant safety composite

Lowell Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Lowell Plant: 20.6 → 75.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 75.5 TCR · DART/TCR 9.08× in 2024

Lowell Plant's TCR rose 54.9 from 20.6 in 2016 to 75.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 9.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 75.5 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Marion Plant
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marion Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowell Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowell Plant averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Lowell Plant TCR series: 2016=20.6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=6 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=75.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Lowell Plant falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 14 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in Massachusetts.

Lowell Plant (39 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowell Plant
Lowell Plant (39 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Lowell Plant has more employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 75.5 75.5 4 0 0
2023 7.1 4.7 3 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.3 2.8 3 0 0
2020 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2019 6.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2016 20.6 17.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · MA · Lowell

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, 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 Marion Plant 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas Sand and Concrete, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sloan 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardmore Ave. Plant 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kendall Green Energy, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Wrentham 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG BOS- RIO 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE WES Construction Corp. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital 2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital Saints 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-TCR Glassey SteelWorks, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Valeo Bessemer Site 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion Carrier Corp 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Laird Manufacturing 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ronlen Industries Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warner Robins Project 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Rosa Office 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFI - Livonia 39 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.