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Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham

Name: Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Needham, MA · ~111 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.9
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade F.

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham: 9.9 TCR = 290% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham safety composite

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham: 7.6 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2021

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham's TCR rose 3.4 from 7.6 in 2018 to 11.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 290% of ind

DART 9.2 DART
RANK #769/842
PHOTO SKANEATELES
BOOK 4y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SKANEATELES (0.0 TCR gap)

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SKANEATELES

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10331 Colorado

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NAI-0034-0034-

9.9
NAI-0032-0032-

9.9

What this shows Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham averages 9.9 TCR (290% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #769 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham (111 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Needham has more employees than the Supermarkets 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
2021	11.0	9.2	6	0
2020	9.6	5.7	5	0
2019	11.3	8.0	6	1
2018	7.6	4.6	5	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Needham

30,654 Supermarkets 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	SKANEATELES	SKANEATELES, NY	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	10331 Colorado Blvd	GLENDALE, CO	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NAI-0034-0034-02956 FAC-02956-SICKLERVILLE-NJ	SICKLERVILLE, NJ	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NAI-0032-0032-01306 FAC-01306-WEST DUNDEE-IL	WEST DUNDEE, IL	9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	General Contractor	BOSTON	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	G.O. Construction Services, LLC	BOSTON	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lunenburg	LUNENBURG	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Middlesex Glass Company Inc.	TEWKSBURY	111 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	4769-6033-Pottery Barn	Huntington, NY	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Strack and Van Til Crown Point Broadway	Crown Point, IN	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged	Arlington Heights, IL	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hackett Hill Center	Manchester, NH	9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bowling Green Manor	Bowling Green, OH	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sodexo at Martin Luther King Jr. - La	Los Angeles, CA	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Redding Cement	Redding, CA	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2077-Us Dd Nw Los Angeles Branch	Los Angeles, CA	111 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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