Retail East - Palmer
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PALMER, MA | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling
~20 avg employees | 5 years of OSHA data
Retail East - Palmer has an average TCR of 9.0, which is 266% of the industry average (3.4) for Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for Retail East - Palmer
Retail East - Palmer operates an establishment with approximately 20 full-time equivalent workers in PALMER, MA, classified under the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling industry (NAICS 454310). Across 5 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 6 recordable injuries, 0 occupational illnesses, and 1 workplace fatality. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 9.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.4 for Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling, Retail East - Palmer's workforce experiences 266% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 5 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Retail East - Palmer as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 1, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Retail East - Palmer's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 454310 — Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2022)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 31,633 hours worked = 12.65 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Retail East - Palmer (this establishment) | 9.03 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 454310 |
| Massachusetts state avg (all industries) | 10.63 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Retail East - Palmer to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2022: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 3 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.7 | 12.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 19.2 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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