Employer · Massachusetts

Palmer

Worcester, MA · ~121 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmer: 6.3 TCR = 185% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer safety composite

Palmer scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Palmer: 3.7 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Palmer's TCR rose 5.1 from 3.7 in 2023 to 8.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 185% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #536/842
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 177
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 177 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer averages 6.3 TCR (185% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer TCR series: 2023=3.7 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Palmer falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #536 safest of 842 industry employers in Massachusetts.

Palmer (121 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmer
Palmer (121 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Palmer has more employees than the industry 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
2024 8.8 5.1 7 0 0
2023 3.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Worcester

30,654 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, 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 The Fresh Market 177 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Shop 'n Save 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hurltburt Field 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR White River Jct. Food Store 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Leaf Farms 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Yarmouth 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Somerville Electric 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Aulson Company, Inc. 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Golden Valley 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Heating & Cooling, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis,TN - 444 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Express One Logistics, Inc.-Dc 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cucamonga Traffic Center 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Baltimore 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-North Jersey 121 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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