Family social service agencies · Massachusetts

Merrimack Valley

Name: Merrimack Valley Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Lawrence, MA · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.1
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Merrimack Valley runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Family social service agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Merrimack Valley: 6.1 TCR = 159% of Family social service agencies BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrimack Valley safety composite

Merrimack Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 Valley: 4.9 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

Merrimack Valley's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.9 in 2019 to 7.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Lawrence, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 159% of ind

DART 7.2 DART
RANK #27/36
PHOTO Jewish Federation of…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

This site

6.1
Jewish Federat

6.1
Options MN - R

6.1
YMCA of Memphi

6.1
Headquarters

6

What this shows Merrimack Valley averages 6.1 TCR (159% of the Family social service agencies BLS benchmark).

Merrimack Valley TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Merrimack Valley falls in its industry

990 Family social service agencies establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 36 Family social service agencies employers in Massachusetts.

Merrimack Valley (16 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Merrimack Valley has fewer employees than the Family social service agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020	7.2	7.2	1	0	0
2019	4.9	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · MA · Lawrence

990 Family social service agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 77 employers in Lawrence, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey	CHERRY HILL, NJ	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Options MN - River Ridge, LLC Burnsville	BURNSVILLE, MN	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	YMCA of Memphis - Olive Branch	OLIVE BRANCH, MS	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Headquarters	MANCHESTER, NH	6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Integrity Development & Construction, Inc.	AMHERST	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CARAUSTAR - FITCHBURG MA	FITCHBURG	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Progressive Roofing Inc.	HAVERHILL	16 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BrandSafway Services, LLC - Exelon Mystic Power Station - Boston	BOSTON	16 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL	Lawrence	1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lawrence	Lawrence	730 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lawrence Manufacturing	Lawrence	728 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Balance Athletics Lawrence Mill	Lawrence	723 FTE
NAT-TCR	DoubleTree By Hilton Binghamton	Binghamton, NY	6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	STULZ Air Technology Systems, Inc.	Frederick, MD	6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Missouri (Plant 2)	Gainsville, MO	6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	County Jails #1, #2 & #9	San Francisco, CA	6.1 TCR

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: 2020, 2019. 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.