Farm supply stores · Massachusetts

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center

Westfield, MA · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center: 3.9 TCR = 114% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center safety composite

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.7

2017→2020

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center injury rate improved

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center's TCR fell 5.7 from 5.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Westfield, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Town Location
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern States Westfield Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Westfield Distribution Center averages 3.9 TCR (114% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern States Westfield Distribution Center falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Farm supply stores employers in Massachusetts.

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center (137 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Westfield Distribution Center
Southern States Westfield Distribution Center (137 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Southern States Westfield Distribution Center has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2017 5.7 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · MA · Westfield

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 84 employers in Westfield, 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 Town Location 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Distribution Center 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bushnell Gardens Nursery 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Hill Nurseries 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Boston Office 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE BROCKTON-MA60 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLINE_N.Andover, MA 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZCO INC. - Salem Harbor Power Plant 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR BNH - Baystate Noble Hospital 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Westfield, MA (FDC) 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Savage Arms, Inc. 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2174 401 FTE
NAT-TCR LKC Kings Hwy 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalispell Regional Medical Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Abilene Equipment Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Art Moran Buick-Gmc, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monterey Regional Waste Management District 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Rehabilitation & HealthCare Center 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bureau of Water Protection & Land Reuse 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Pell City) 137 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.