Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Massachusetts

Middle East Bakery, Inc.

Lawrence, MA · ~244 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middle East Bakery, Inc. runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Middle East Bakery, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middle East Bakery, Inc. safety composite

Middle East Bakery, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−0.4

2018→2024

Middle East Bakery, Inc. injury rate improved

Middle East Bakery, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 2.0 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Lawrence, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #13/32
  • PHOTO Bakewise Brands, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bakewise Brands, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Middle East Bakery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middle East Bakery, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Middle East Bakery, Inc. TCR series: 2018=2 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Middle East Bakery, Inc. falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 32 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Massachusetts.

Middle East Bakery, Inc. (244 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Middle East Bakery, Inc.
Middle East Bakery, Inc. (244 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Middle East Bakery, Inc. has more employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 1.6 1.2 4 0 0
2023 5.2 0.9 11 0 0
2022 4.3 0.0 12 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MA · Lawrence

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bakewise Brands, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flower Baking Company of Tyler 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLEBORO MA DEPOT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 338 Allen Park MI 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BT Canton 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint-Gobain PCR 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon_Tewksbury Innovation_MA 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taunton Warehouse 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL 1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Manufacturing 728 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Balance Athletics Lawrence Mill 723 FTE
NAT-TCR Decatur Memorial Hospital 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Visiting Nurses 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JW Aluminum - Mt. Holly 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Plastics Corporation Macon 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newly Weds Foods 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle Aquarium 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vulcan Threaded Products, Inc. 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Second Harvest Heartland 244 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, 2022, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.