Landscape care and maintenance services · Massachusetts

MA - Springfield

Chicopee, MA · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MA - Springfield runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

MA - Springfield: 6.2 TCR = 137% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MA - Springfield safety composite

MA - Springfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

MA - Springfield: 4.8 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

MA - Springfield's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.8 in 2023 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 137% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #31/58
  • PHOTO Kramer Tree Speciali…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kramer Tree Specialists, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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MA - Springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MA - Springfield averages 6.2 TCR (137% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

MA - Springfield TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where MA - Springfield falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #31 safest of 58 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Massachusetts.

MA - Springfield (51 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MA - Springfield
MA - Springfield (51 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

MA - Springfield has fewer employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services 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
2024 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MA · Chicopee

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, 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 Kramer Tree Specialists, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Four Seasons Tree Care, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Green Landscape Group 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5619 - Pittsburgh North 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benevento Sand & Stone Corp 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Day Boston 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Paving Company, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lazaro Paving Corp. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Elkton 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nhman - Manchester 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncwch - West Charlotte Hub 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kylex - Lexington 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Community Services 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE York Branch 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dimensions Living Appleton LLC 51 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. 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.