Cold storage warehousing · Massachusetts

Sturbridge-NECS

Sturbridge, MA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sturbridge-NECS runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sturbridge-NECS: 16.5 TCR = 284% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sturbridge-NECS safety composite

Sturbridge-NECS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Sturbridge-NECS held a steady TCR band

Sturbridge-NECS's TCR held near 0.2 from 16.6 in 2023 to 16.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.6 · 2024=16.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Sturbridge, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.5 · 284% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO Americold Eastpoint,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americold Eastpoint, GA (0.5 TCR gap)

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Sturbridge-NECS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sturbridge-NECS averages 16.5 TCR (284% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Sturbridge-NECS TCR series: 2023=16.6 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 5.8

Where Sturbridge-NECS falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 24 Cold storage warehousing employers in Massachusetts.

Sturbridge-NECS (35 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sturbridge-NECS
Sturbridge-NECS (35 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sturbridge-NECS has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 16.4 13.1 5 0 0
2023 16.6 16.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MA · Sturbridge

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 29 employers in Sturbridge, 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 Americold Eastpoint, GA 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 089 - Lansing Cold Storage 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Case Rdy Distribution 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ethos Fitchburg 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Worcester 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIS - MA 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Systems, Inc. NE 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Venture Community Services 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Old Sturbridge, Inc 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2797 170 FTE
NAT-TCR Cabak - Bakersfield Center 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 158 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Denny's 9547 16.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA White Plains 240 Airport Rd 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Ontario 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Buildings LLC. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwinn Company 35 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. 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.