Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities · Massachusetts

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center)

Andover, MA · ~365 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities workplace, earning a grade F.

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center): 8.8 TCR = 232% of Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) safety composite

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center): 4.8 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center)'s TCR rose 8.0 from 4.8 in 2023 to 12.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624120 · Andover, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 232% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #30/45
  • PHOTO Pony Bird Incorporated
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pony Bird Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) averages 8.8 TCR (232% of the Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS benchmark).

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

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 3.8

Where NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) falls in its industry

1,320 Day care centers for disabled establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 45 Day care centers for disabled employers in Massachusetts.

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) (365 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center)
NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) (365 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5

NEEDS Center (Northeast Educational and Developmental Support Center) has more employees than the Day care centers for disabled persons, t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 12.8 8.2 56 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624120 · MA · Andover

1,320 Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 78 employers in Andover, 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 Pony Bird Incorporated 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Always Best Care of Temecula Valley 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CareGivers America LLC Lehighton 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Arc of Spokane 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Liberty Construction Services LLC 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc. 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2336 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2953 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 4,812 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Andover_MA 4,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips Healthcare 2,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer, Inc. 2,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Loudoun Sheet Metal Co. Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Winslow Court 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1522 - Red Wing 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2019 - Whittier 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Nebraska Medicine Evs 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Action Labor of Pensacola 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE BM1 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enoree Complex 365 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.

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