General warehousing and storage · Massachusetts

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center

Methuen, MA · ~406 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center: 9.5 TCR = 163% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center safety composite

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−2.7

2016→2022

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center injury rate improved

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center's TCR fell 2.7 from 8.9 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=10.7 · 2019=12.2 · 2022=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Methuen, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.5 · 163% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #98/121
  • PHOTO OctoChem, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 157 inj
  • SIZE ~406 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OctoChem, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center averages 9.5 TCR (163% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=10.7 · 2019=12.2 · 2022=6.2 · BLS 5.8

Where Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 121 General warehousing and storag employers in Massachusetts.

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center (406 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center
Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center (406 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Shaw's Methuen Distribution Center has more employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.2 6.2 23 0 0
2019 12.2 11.7 52 0 0
2017 10.7 10.0 45 0 0
2016 8.9 8.4 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · MA · Methuen

9,477 General warehousing and storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 53 employers in Methuen, 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 OctoChem, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4418/3639 - Shell Rock Crossdocks 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRICE TRANSFER INC. 3 - 4 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NationsBenefits LLC Pittsburgh Distribution Center 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Market Basket #60 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE LYNNFIELD (MALYN) 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savage Arms, Inc. 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Callaway Golf Ball Operations, Inc 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Family Hospital - Methuen 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Ann's Home, Inc 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-06652 FAC-06652-METHUEN-MA 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #10 253 FTE
NAT-TCR Reycon Construction Inc 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Catherine Kasper Life Center 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #680 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-034-West Evansville ( RK-034 ) 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Companions Forever LLC 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cypress Cove at HealthPark Florida 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE On-Shore Wind : Pensacola, FL, USA 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ferrara Candy Company 406 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, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.