Food banks · Massachusetts

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts

Chicopee, MA · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food banks workplace, earning a grade F.

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts: 9.1 TCR = 240% of Food banks BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts safety composite

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts: 7.0 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts's TCR rose 4.2 from 7.0 in 2023 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624210 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 240% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO Good Shepherd Food B…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Good Shepherd Food Bank - Hampden (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts averages 9.1 TCR (240% of the Food banks BLS benchmark).

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

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts TCR series: 2023=7 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 3.8

Where The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts falls in its industry

147 Food banks establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts (71 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts (71 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.7

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has fewer employees than the Food banks median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 11.2 6.4 6 1 0
2023 7.0 5.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624210 · MA · Chicopee

147 Food banks employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank - Hampden 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channel One Inc 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Bank of the Hudson Valley 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE OW NA 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - New Bedford Gas 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J CONTRACTORS, INC. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fred DeRoma & Son, Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1558 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus Christi Bayfront Rehab 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2195 - Lake Elsinore 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2093 - Houston Central 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triangle Contracting, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Tifton GA 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ca - Lax Basn 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville - 6400 Ladd Avenue 71 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.