Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling · Massachusetts

Retail East - Palmer

Palmer, MA · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Retail East - Palmer runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Retail East - Palmer: 9.0 TCR = 266% of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Retail East - Palmer safety composite

Retail East - Palmer scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

12/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2018→2022

Retail East - Palmer injury rate improved

Retail East - Palmer's TCR fell 6.6 from 19.2 in 2018 to 12.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=12.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Palmer, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 266% of ind

  • DART 12.7 DART
  • RANK #12/21
  • PHOTO AmeriGas Propane - P…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AmeriGas Propane - Phoenix, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Retail East - Palmer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Retail East - Palmer averages 9.0 TCR (266% of the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Retail East - Palmer TCR series: 2018=19.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=12.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Retail East - Palmer falls in its industry

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 21 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) employers in Massachusetts.

Retail East - Palmer (20 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Retail East - Palmer
Retail East - Palmer (20 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Retail East - Palmer has fewer employees than the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, d median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · MA · Palmer

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, 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 AmeriGas Propane - Phoenix, AZ 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monte Vista Cooperative Main 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Propane - Charlotte, NC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Propane & Oil 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millennium Power 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANP Blackstone Energy Company LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATHOL-MA03 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE QUINCY-MA41 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Express Lease LLC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Whse 545 - Francis #1 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corinth Rehabilitation Suites On The Parkway 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2045-00008W 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CoreDesign, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE WLM-ODFL 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lwsh-Trl-Lovelace Westside Hosp 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cumming 20 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.