Academies, college or university · Massachusetts

Nichols College

Name: Nichols College Workplace Safety Data
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Dudley, MA · ~423 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nichols College runs at 335% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols College: 4.7 TCR = 335% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols College safety composite

Nichols College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
DART rate: F 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Nichols College: 4.1 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2023

Nichols College's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.1 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Dudley, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 335% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK P10
PHOTO Agnes Scott College
BOOK 5y book
INJ 32 inj
SIZE ~423 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agnes Scott College (0.0 TCR gap)

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5
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5
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4.9
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4.7
Agnes Scott Co

4.7

What this shows Nichols College averages 4.7 TCR (335% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

Nichols College TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=4 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Nichols College falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Nichols College (423 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Nichols College has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023	4.5	1.0	9	0
2022	4.0	1.3	6	0
2021	8.5	2.1	3	1
2020	2.3	0.6	4	0
2019	4.1	1.2	10	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MA · Dudley

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 9 employers in Dudley, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Agnes Scott College	DECATUR, GA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Antioch College	YELLOW SPRINGS, OH	4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Warren Wilson College	SWANNANOA, NC	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Emory Johns Creek Hospital	JOHNS CREEK, GA	5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Shire: 300 Shire Way	LEXINGTON	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gentex Optics, Inc.	DUDLEY	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	C40	UXBRIDGE	423 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EM Duggan Inc,	CANTON	422 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Henke Sass Wolf of America, Inc	Dudley	175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shield Packaging Co Inc	Dudley	85 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Webco Chemical Corporation	Dudley	62 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Industrial Transfer & Storage Inc.	Dudley	60 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cottages Huntsville	Huntsville, AL	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	115 - Palm Beach	West Palm Beach, FL	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Chi Saint Joseph Mount Sterlin	Mount Sterling, KY	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	OU Children's Hospital EVS	Oklahoma City, OK	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	USM Store #551 (United)	Lubbock, TX	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Musashi Auto Parts-MI, Inc.	Battle Creek, MI	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	John George Psychiatric Hospital	San Leandro, CA	423 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WOOD_DALE_IL	Wood Dale, IL	423 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.