Support Activities for Air Transportation · Massachusetts

SFS-274BED

Bedford, MA · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SFS-274BED runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

SFS-274BED: 4.3 TCR = 96% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SFS-274BED safety composite

SFS-274BED scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−3.1

2016→2020

SFS-274BED injury rate improved

SFS-274BED's TCR fell 3.1 from 3.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO West Star Aviation /…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Star Aviation / Chattanooga (0.0 TCR gap)

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SFS-274BED in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SFS-274BED averages 4.3 TCR (96% of the Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

SFS-274BED TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where SFS-274BED falls in its industry

992 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in Massachusetts.

SFS-274BED (56 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SFS-274BED
SFS-274BED (56 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

SFS-274BED has fewer employees than the Support Activities for Air Transportatio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 9.4 3.1 3 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · MA · Bedford

992 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 50 employers in Bedford, 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 West Star Aviation / Chattanooga 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-EJ-20730180-MX 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELP EL PASO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWI 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smolak Farms 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities Fifth Street 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7238_16578 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fontaine Bros. Inc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Instrumentation Laboratory 1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford - 174 Middlesex Pkwy 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMD Millipore - 80 Ashby and 75 Wiggins 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR State Electric Corporation 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterford location 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cawcov-Opi-West Covina 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0616 - Doors-Pataskala 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carla's Pasta 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support Raleigh 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Printing 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEO:NCCOR - NCCOR-Woodstock - Corporate 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCI:CC016 - CC016-Colorado 56 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.