Natural Gas Distribution · Massachusetts

Operations Center-Ma38

Lowell, MA · ~122 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Operations Center-Ma38 runs at 423% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural Gas Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Operations Center-Ma38: 5.1 TCR = 423% of Natural Gas Distribution BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Operations Center-Ma38 safety composite

Operations Center-Ma38 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Operations Center-Ma38: 4.5 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.15× in 2024

Operations Center-Ma38's TCR rose 6.5 from 4.5 in 2020 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 423% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #36/42
  • PHOTO UGI Archbald
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UGI Archbald (0.0 TCR gap)

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Operations Center-Ma38 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Operations Center-Ma38 averages 5.1 TCR (423% of the Natural Gas Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Operations Center-Ma38 TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Operations Center-Ma38 falls in its industry

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 42 Natural Gas Distribution employers in Massachusetts.

Operations Center-Ma38 (122 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Operations Center-Ma38
Operations Center-Ma38 (122 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Operations Center-Ma38 has more employees than the Natural Gas Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 10.9 10.9 14 0 0
2023 4.7 3.1 5 1 0
2022 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · MA · Lowell

1,153 Natural Gas Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, 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 UGI Archbald 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHINO BASE - 15 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR VERNAL 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spire Mississippi Inc. 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Component Assembly Systems Boston MA. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medford Wellington Service 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Araujo Bros Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shire: 125 Spring Street 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital 2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital Saints 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-TCR PJ Wallbank Springs, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso 10279 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR New Iberia Manor North 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kurrent Electric, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Controlled Products LLC 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christian Health Center Louisville 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concrete Service Company 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forming Technologies 122 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.