Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) · Massachusetts

MXD Commercial West/Substation

Cambridge, MA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MXD Commercial West/Substation runs at 584% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) workplace, earning a grade F.

MXD Commercial West/Substation: 16.4 TCR = 584% of Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MXD Commercial West/Substation safety composite

MXD Commercial West/Substation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

MXD Commercial West/Substation: 16.4 → 51.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 51.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.79× in 2024

MXD Commercial West/Substation's TCR rose 34.9 from 16.4 in 2023 to 51.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Cambridge, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 584% of ind

  • DART 29.3 DART
  • RANK #54/56
  • PHOTO JFC Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JFC Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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MXD Commercial West/Substation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MXD Commercial West/Substation averages 16.4 TCR (584% of the Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) BLS benchmark).

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

MXD Commercial West/Substation TCR series: 2023=16.4 · 2024=51.2 · BLS 2.8

Where MXD Commercial West/Substation falls in its industry

1,750 Foundation digging (i.e., exca establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 56 Foundation digging (i.e., exca employers in Massachusetts.

MXD Commercial West/Substation (20 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MXD Commercial West/Substation
MXD Commercial West/Substation (20 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

MXD Commercial West/Substation has fewer employees than the Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 51.2 29.3 7 0 0
2023 16.4 8.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MA · Cambridge

1,750 Foundation digging (i.e., excavation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 149 employers in Cambridge, 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 JFC Inc 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garth Corp d/b/a Garth Services 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & M Excavation & Utilities LLC 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Engineering & Construction 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millennium Power 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANP Blackstone Energy Company LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATHOL-MA03 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE QUINCY-MA41 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 5,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinfen Corporation 2,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biogen - Cambridge 2,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambridge Campus 2,473 FTE
NAT-TCR San Isabel Electric Association-Pueblo West E&O 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 052 SHOP 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gray and Company / Seneca 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapters Logistics LLC 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Servpro of South Orlando 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garbe Iron Works, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redwood Distribution Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hood Container Wilmington 151 20 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.