Telecommunications · Massachusetts

PT509 - Worcester,MA

Worcester, MA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PT509 - Worcester,MA runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

PT509 - Worcester,MA: 4.0 TCR = 143% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PT509 - Worcester,MA safety composite

PT509 - Worcester,MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

PT509 - Worcester,MA held a steady TCR band

PT509 - Worcester,MA's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.8 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 143% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #87/128
  • PHOTO Whole Company - Powe…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whole Company - Power Plus! (0.0 TCR gap)

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PT509 - Worcester,MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PT509 - Worcester,MA averages 4.0 TCR (143% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

PT509 - Worcester,MA TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where PT509 - Worcester,MA falls in its industry

4,550 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 128 Telecommunications employers in Massachusetts.

PT509 - Worcester,MA (24 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate PT509 - Worcester,MA
PT509 - Worcester,MA (24 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

PT509 - Worcester,MA has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 Fatalities
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MA · Worcester

4,550 Telecommunications 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 Whole Company - Power Plus! 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TENNYSON ELECTRIC LLC. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUPERTINO ELECTRIC, INC. - IN OPERATIONS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimbrell Electric Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 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 NAPP Greeneville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NV - Massapequa 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Association for the Developmentally Disabled 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cumberland (Mdcum) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PA031 - Pauley Construction Longmont 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE TDNIC - Nicholasville 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE FT010 - Fiber Tech - Richmond 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - KC Starlight Theatre 24 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: 2018, 2017. 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.