Curing fish and seafood · Massachusetts

Spence & Company

Brockton, MA · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spence & Company runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Curing fish and seafood workplace, earning a grade B.

Spence & Company: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Curing fish and seafood BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spence & Company safety composite

Spence & Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Spence & Company: 1.1 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Spence & Company's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.1 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311710 · Brockton, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Production
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spence & Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spence & Company averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Curing fish and seafood BLS benchmark).

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

Spence & Company TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Spence & Company falls in its industry

231 Curing fish and seafood establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 18 Curing fish and seafood employers in Massachusetts.

Spence & Company (86 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spence & Company
Spence & Company (86 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Spence & Company has fewer employees than the Curing fish and seafood median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311710 · MA · Brockton

231 Curing fish and seafood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 111 employers in Brockton, 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 Production 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips Foods 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich Products Brownsville 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arctic Storm, Inc. 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 871-NiSource-Springfield MA-Cust Op Ctr 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Boston 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milltown Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boutwell Packaging Inc 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR BROCKTON HOSPITAL 1,872 FTE
CITY-NEAR GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER 1,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAMSI 1,393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brockton Neighborhood Health Center 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Mission Rock Lot B 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GC9 Industrial Dr, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Barney Davis, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Encapsys, LLC Portage Plant 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edmund A. Allen Lumber, Illinois Facility 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intersection Logistics LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance Door Products - Sumner 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE ES/Electrical Maintenance and Construction - 37 86 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.