Home health agencies · Massachusetts

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc.

Name: Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Webster, MA · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 5.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade B.

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 54% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. safety composite

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. held a steady TCR band

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Webster, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 54% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #38/159
PHOTO Cynthiana
BOOK 3y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cynthiana (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

This site

2.8
Cynthiana

2.8
0437 - SV

2.8
Southside Home

2.8
Teton Healthca

2.8

What this shows Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (54% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 5.2

Where Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 159 Home health agencies employers in Massachusetts.

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. (137 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. has more employees than the Home health agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018	2.1	2.1	2
2017	4.4	4.4	4
2016	1.9	1.9	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Webster

3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Webster, 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	Cynthiana	CYNTHIANA, KY	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	0437 - SV	SALISBURY, NC	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southside Home Health	LYNCHBURG, VA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Teton Healthcare Inc DBA Horizon Home Health and Hospice	TWIN FALLS, ID	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Avangrid Renewables - Boston Office	BOSTON	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BROCKTON-MA60	BROCKTON	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CLINE_N.Andover, MA	NORTH ANDOVER	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AZCO INC. - Salem Harbor Power Plant	SALEM	137 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jeffco Fibres, Inc.	Webster	232 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WEBSTER #240	Webster	226 FTE
CITY-NEAR	226_358	Webster	190 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Industrial Packaging	Webster	187 FTE
NAT-TCR	Flint Engine Operations	Flint, MI	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	American Type Culture Collection GMU Campus	Manassas, VA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Willowbrook Place	Thiensville, WI	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Malloy Electric-Omaha	Omaha, NE	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	AEP Industries Inc	Bowling Green, KY	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Louisiana Rehab Associates, LP	Alexandria, LA	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CORTEC	Houma, LA	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vernon #205	Vernon, CT	137 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.