Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Northern Wind

New Bedford, MA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Wind runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Northern Wind: 1.1 TCR = 50% of Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Wind safety composite

Northern Wind scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Northern Wind: 1.3 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2022

Northern Wind's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.3 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424460 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO TWF DALLAS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TWF DALLAS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Northern Wind in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Wind averages 1.1 TCR (50% of the Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Wind TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Northern Wind falls in its industry

88 Fresh seafood merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Fresh seafood merchant wholesa employers in Massachusetts.

Northern Wind (87 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Wind
Northern Wind (87 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Northern Wind has more employees than the Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424460 · MA · New Bedford

88 Fresh seafood merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, 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 TWF DALLAS 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Lagoon Seafood 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Crest Seafoods, Inc 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR True World Foods Boston 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-G Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE North shore mechanical contractors 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR Westport Properties, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #9 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 568 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Walrath Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPA Seattle DC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmingdale Vending 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latexco, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meridian At Waterways 87 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: 2022, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.