Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Sudbury Farms - Needham

Name: Sudbury Farms - Needham Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Needham, MA · ~167 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sudbury Farms - Needham runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Sudbury Farms - Needham: 3.8 TCR = 111% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sudbury Farms - Needham safety composite

Sudbury Farms - Needham scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sudbury Farms - Needham: 1.8 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2021

Sudbury Farms - Needham's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.8 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Needham, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 111% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #220/842
PHOTO Shop Rite of Landis …
BOOK 4y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shop Rite of Landis Vineland (0.0 TCR gap)

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FAREWAY STORES

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What this shows Sudbury Farms - Needham averages 3.8 TCR (111% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Sudbury Farms - Needham TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Sudbury Farms - Needham falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #220 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Sudbury Farms - Needham (167 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sudbury Farms - Needham has more employees than the Supermarkets median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2021	3.3	3.3	3
2020	5.5	4.4	5
2019	4.6	1.9	5
2018	1.8	1.8	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Needham

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 43 employers in Needham, 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	Shop Rite of Landis Vineland	VINELAND, NJ	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 1430	MARIETTA, GA	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 138 PLEASANT HILL	PLEASANT HILL, IA	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0450	ALBANY, GA	3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Gilbane Building Company Boston	BOSTON	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	G.O. Services, LLC	BOSTON	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nasoya Foods USA, LLC	AYER	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kanzaki Specialty Papers	WARE	167 FTE
CITY-NEAR	C&W Services	Needham	12,800 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Justice Resource Institute	Needham	1,313 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beth Israel Deaconess Needham	Needham	1,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham	Needham	863 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ruan Transport Corporation T-038	Tampa, FL	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	TDF Services, Inc.	Oakmont, PA	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vidant Home Health & Hospice	Greenville, NC	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Campbell Transportation Services	Cleveland, TX	3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Sodexo at Sharp Grossmont Hospital -Food	La Mesa, CA	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Professional Resource Network PRN	Eden Prairie, MN	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6975-1L12	New Windsor, NY	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Envelope 1 Inc.	Columbiana, OH	167 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.