Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires · Massachusetts

MA- Chelsea

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

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MA- Chelsea runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires workplace, earning a grade F.

MA- Chelsea: 7.5 TCR = 343% of Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MA- Chelsea safety composite

MA- Chelsea scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.13 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2022→2023

MA- Chelsea injury rate improved

MA- Chelsea's TCR fell 4.8 from 9.9 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.9 · 2023=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Chelsea, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 343% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #8/16
  • PHOTO Sanel NAPA Store #801
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanel NAPA Store #801 (0.0 TCR gap)

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MA- Chelsea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MA- Chelsea averages 7.5 TCR (343% of the Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires BLS benchmark).

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

MA- Chelsea TCR series: 2022=9.9 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where MA- Chelsea falls in its industry

950 Automobile & other motor vehic establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 16 Automobile & other motor vehic employers in Massachusetts.

MA- Chelsea (45 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate MA- Chelsea
MA- Chelsea (45 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

MA- Chelsea has fewer employees than the Automobile & other motor vehicle merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2022 9.9 9.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · MA · Chelsea

950 Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 52 employers in Chelsea, 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 Sanel NAPA Store #801 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grade A Auto Parts 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAPW Loc 11 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prime Wheel Corporation 7.6 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 Market Basket #32 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR State Garden, Inc. 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kayem Foods, Inc 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 240055-BOS-CHELSEA CARRIER ANNEX 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Inland Empire 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR James Wickliffe 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minerals Research, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4223-M5500 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wesley Court Assisted Living Community 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Upper Midwest : SVC-Milwaukee WI-USA 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okuma Fishing Tackle Corp 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: 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.