Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store · Massachusetts

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms

Name: Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Needham, MA · ~177 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms: 6.2 TCR = 181% of Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms safety composite

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2023→2024

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms injury rate improved

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms's TCR fell 4.4 from 8.4 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.4 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 181% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #524/842
PHOTO Clinton
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clinton (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.2
Clinton

6.2
534-00892

6.2
620-00086

6.2
20500002-921 S

6.2

What this shows Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms averages 6.2 TCR (181% of the Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store BLS benchmark).

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms TCR series: 2023=8.4 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.4

Where Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarket Groc not Convenie establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #524 safest of 842 Supermarket Groc not Convenie employers in Massachusetts.

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms (177 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Roche Bros - Needham Sudbury Farms has more employees than the Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store 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	4.0	1.3	2	1	0
2023	8.4	4.2	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Needham

30,654 Supermarket Groc not Convenience Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 43 employers in Needham, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Clinton	CLINTON, CT	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	534-00892	MENOMONEE FALLS, WI	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	620-00086	BROOMFIELD, CO	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	20500002-921 STORE 921 - REDONDO BEACH	REDONDO BEACH, CA	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HVV Massachusetts, Inc. - Gloucester	GLOUCESTER	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eversource - Somerville Electric	SOMERVILLE	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Cheviot Corp.	NEEDHAM HTS	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	USA MA Canton	CANTON	177 FTE
CITY-NEAR	C&W Services	Needham	12,800 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Justice Resource Institute	Needham	1,313 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beth Israel Deaconess Needham	Needham	1,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham	Needham	863 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sutton Community Home, Inc.	Sutton, NE	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	436-DC065	Goddard, KS	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rentex Inc. Anaheim	Anaheim, CA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	FedEx Supply Chain Hartz	Plainfield, IN	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Naperville Il - 3505	Naperville, IL	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Muskegon Mi - 3102	Muskegon, MI	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kansas City North Mo - 3342	Kansas City, MO	177 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Holland Oh - 3201	Holland, OH	177 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.

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