General Freight Trucking, Local · Massachusetts

Northboro

Northborough, MA · ~133 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northboro runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking, Local workplace, earning a grade D.

Northboro: 8.0 TCR = 178% of General Freight Trucking, Local BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northboro safety composite

Northboro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Northboro: 6.6 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2023

Northboro's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.6 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Northborough, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #28/43
  • PHOTO DCC : 5553-00 CVS-DC…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DCC : 5553-00 CVS-DCC/Novi, MI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northboro averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the General Freight Trucking, Local BLS benchmark).

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

Northboro TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Northboro falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking, Loca establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 43 General Freight Trucking, Loca employers in Massachusetts.

Northboro (133 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northboro
Northboro (133 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Northboro has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, Local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 7.2 5.8 10 0 0
2022 7.2 6.4 10 0 0
2020 6.5 2.5 8 0 0
2019 8.3 5.3 11 0 0
2018 8.9 1.9 14 0 0
2017 11.4 5.7 18 0 0
2016 6.6 6.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MA · Northborough

2,784 General Freight Trucking, Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 42 employers in Northborough, 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 DCC : 5553-00 CVS-DCC/Novi, MI 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penske : 3792-00 General Motors Admin/Kansas City, KS 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALBUQUERQUE (NMALQ) 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PADUCAH (KYPDU) 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plumb House, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Atlantic Red Crab Company LLC 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE REILY FOODS COMPANY - MALDEN' 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORTHBORO-MA33 983 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5015 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Northborough 058 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OWD5 391 FTE
NAT-TCR 145 Lci 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus - Bay City Saginaw 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wenzel Metal Spinning, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Zero Waste Energy Development Company (ZWEDC) 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oats Overnight 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleaner's Supply, Inc. - Conklin, NY 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Sanitizers Inc 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massana Construction 133 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.