Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · Massachusetts

Merrimack Place

Newburyport, MA · ~85 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrimack Place runs at 418% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrimack Place: 15.9 TCR = 418% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrimack Place safety composite

Merrimack Place scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Merrimack Place: 6.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 37.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2022

Merrimack Place's TCR rose 1.5 from 6.1 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 37.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Newburyport, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 418% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #185/210
  • PHOTO Symphony at Stuart
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Symphony at Stuart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrimack Place in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrimack Place averages 15.9 TCR (418% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Merrimack Place TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=15.3 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=24.9 · 2021=37.1 · 2022=7.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Merrimack Place falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #185 safest of 210 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Massachusetts.

Merrimack Place (85 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrimack Place
Merrimack Place (85 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Merrimack Place has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 7.6 3.8 4 0 0
2021 37.1 31.6 5 15 0
2020 24.9 19.2 6 7 0
2019 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2017 15.3 8.8 7 0 0
2016 6.1 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · MA · Newburyport

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in Newburyport, 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 Symphony at Stuart 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Senior Living - Flagstaff 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBK - Hillcrest 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fircrest Senior Living 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Cardinal 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueHive/Continental Woodcraft 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 90003930 Canal 3 Simple Cycle Project 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-Wilmington- Research Drive 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anna Jaques Hospital 946 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISREAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL ANNA JAQUES 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Electronics LLC 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turning Point, Inc. 334 FTE
NAT-TCR Wayne Brown Correctional Facility 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1727 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clayton 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Senske Lawn and Tree Care - Idaho Falls Branch 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Disability Supports of the Grt Plns Hutch 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10610 Montgomery 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDonald Steel Corporation 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aludyne Shelbyville 85 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, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.