Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Salem

Salem, MA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Salem runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Salem: 1.6 TCR = 73% of Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Salem safety composite

Salem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Salem: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

Salem's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Salem, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 73% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #6/33
  • PHOTO Ferguson Enterprises…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferguson Enterprises LLC: TX La Porte - 1701 South 16th Street Suite 300 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Salem averages 1.6 TCR (73% of the Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Salem TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Salem falls in its industry

853 Plumbing supplies merchant who establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 33 Plumbing supplies merchant who employers in Massachusetts.

Salem (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Salem
Salem (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Salem has fewer employees than the Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · MA · Salem

853 Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 56 employers in Salem, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ferguson Enterprises LLC: TX La Porte - 1701 South 16th Street Suite 300 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1095 S Rock Blvd 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2551 N Mays St 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Metraflex Company 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALL ENERGY SOLAR North East 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 911-NiSource-Ludlow MA 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Douglas A King Builders, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saloomey Construction Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Medical Center Salem 3,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Physicians Group 1,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Shore Physician's Group 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #58 378 FTE
NAT-TCR Sa1div-Ph-Sa1 Division 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulldog Logistics, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Kansas City 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Compressor Equipment Company 1.6 TCR

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, 2022. 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.