Hydroponic crop farming · Massachusetts

MassGrow Athol

Athol, MA · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MassGrow Athol runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade D.

MassGrow Athol: 8.2 TCR = 182% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MassGrow Athol safety composite

MassGrow Athol scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

MassGrow Athol: 2.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

MassGrow Athol's TCR rose 5.8 from 2.0 in 2020 to 7.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Athol, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Wholesum Farms Arizona
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wholesum Farms Arizona (0.0 TCR gap)

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MassGrow Athol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MassGrow Athol averages 8.2 TCR (182% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

MassGrow Athol TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where MassGrow Athol falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Massachusetts.

MassGrow Athol (93 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MassGrow Athol
MassGrow Athol (93 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

MassGrow Athol has more employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2022 7.8 5.5 6 4 0
2021 14.7 11.3 5 8 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · MA · Athol

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 20 employers in Athol, 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 Wholesum Farms Arizona 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cresco Labs - Carpinteria 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Leaf Extracts LLC dba gLeaf 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verano MA CPG 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE All Clear Plumbing 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andover Office 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darling Ingredients: Peabody 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayhew Basque Plastics LLC. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR The L.S. Starrett Company 543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #78 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR MassGrow LLC - Ascend Wellness Holdings 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Athol Memorial Hospital 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Cornwell Quality Tools Warehouse 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nylba - Albany 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bonfitto Inc. Main Office 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-03203 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE West St Paul ISD #197-Friendly Hills School 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMP Manufacturing Co Inc 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Screen Arts, Inc - Crossings 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLK Foods, LLC 93 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.