Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local · Massachusetts

Sterling - Lowell, MA

Name: Sterling - Lowell, MA Workplace Safety Data
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Lowell, MA · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sterling - Lowell, MA runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local workplace, earning a grade F.

Sterling - Lowell, MA: 12.5 TCR = 277% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling - Lowell, MA safety composite

Sterling - Lowell, MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers
DART rate: F 16.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Sterling - Lowell, MA: 9.6 → 16.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Sterling - Lowell, MA's TCR rose 7.1 from 9.6 in 2016 to 16.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 277% of ind

DART 16.7 DART
RANK #8/9
PHOTO ECYNBRO TRUCKING LLC
BOOK 5y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ECYNBRO TRUCKING LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Sterling - Lowell, MA averages 12.5 TCR (277% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local BLS benchmark).

Sterling - Lowell, MA TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2019=9.9 · 2021=8.4 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=16.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Sterling - Lowell, MA falls in its industry

1,130 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Trucking, specialized freight employers in Massachusetts.

Sterling - Lowell, MA (34 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Sterling - Lowell, MA has fewer employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024	16.7	16.7	6
2023	17.6	17.6	5
2021	8.4	8.4	2
2019	9.9	9.9	4
2016	9.6	7.2	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · MA · Lowell

1,130 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, 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	ECYNBRO TRUCKING LLC	SOUDERTON, PA	12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Organic Valley Viroqua Truck Garage	VIROQUA, WI	12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stone Express	DOUGLASSVILLE, PA	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DAZ2	S. SALT LAKE, UT	12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	OPERATIONS CENTER - LOWELL DIV-MA40	LOWELL	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Commonwealth Building Inc.	ROCKLAND	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4675_10941	WALPOLE	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fred Salvucci Corporation	BURLINGTON	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lowell General Hospital	Lowell	2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pathfinder	Lowell	1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lowell General Hospital Saints	Lowell	741 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Macom Technology Solutions	Lowell	507 FTE
NAT-TCR	UCM Residential Services/Union City Christel Manor	Union City, OH	12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gutchess Brookville LLC	Brookville, PA	12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Haco Electric	Lincoln, NE	12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Retail East - Oak Ridge	Oak Ridge, NJ	12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Missouri Pressed Metals, Inc.	Sedalia, MO	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	At Home Stores #10	Memphis, TN	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mike Schaap Builders Inc.	Holland, MI	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	John Neri Construction Co., Inc.	Addison, IL	34 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 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.