Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries · Massachusetts

Signature Breads Inc.

Name: Signature Breads Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Chelsea, MA · ~250 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Signature Breads Inc. runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Signature Breads Inc.: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Signature Breads Inc. safety composite

Signature Breads Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Signature Breads Inc.: 5.9 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2019

Signature Breads Inc.'s TCR rose 3.5 from 5.9 in 2017 to 9.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chelsea, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

DART 2.0 DART
RANK #26/32
PHOTO Dearborn Sales Branch
BOOK 2y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~250 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dearborn Sales Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Signature Breads Inc. averages 7.7 TCR (233% of the Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

Signature Breads Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2019=9.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Signature Breads Inc. falls in its industry

1,014 Frozen bread and bread-type ro establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 32 Frozen bread and bread-type ro employers in Massachusetts.

Signature Breads Inc. (250 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Signature Breads Inc. has more employees than the Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019	9.4	2.0	4	15	0
2017	5.9	4.0	18	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MA · Chelsea

1,014 Frozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 52 employers in Chelsea, 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	Dearborn Sales Branch	DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BakeFresh Colorado	COMMERCE CITY, CO	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mays Landing NJ Depot	MAYS LANDING, NJ	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Norristown PA Depot	NORRISTOWN, PA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	J.C. Higgins Corp.	STOUGHTON	250 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Company Headquarters	LYNNFIELD	250 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Desktop Metal, Inc.	BURLINGTON	250 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Savant Systems, Inc	HYANNIS	250 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Market Basket #32	Chelsea	683 FTE
CITY-NEAR	State Garden, Inc.	Chelsea	425 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kayem Foods, Inc	Chelsea	308 FTE
CITY-NEAR	240055-BOS-CHELSEA CARRIER ANNEX	Chelsea	284 FTE
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #1786 Woodstock, GA	Woodstock, GA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Voorhees Center	Voorhees, NJ	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-14)	Sacramento, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	388268-Tol-Oregon Br	Toledo, OH	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Location 42052	Melville, NY	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IntraCare North Hospital	Houston, TX	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Samarkand	Santa Barbara, CA	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	229 - Highland	Highland, IN	250 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: 2019, 2017. 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.