Hospice care services, in home · Massachusetts

VNA Care Hospice

Worcester, MA · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VNA Care Hospice runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade C.

VNA Care Hospice: 5.5 TCR = 105% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VNA Care Hospice safety composite

VNA Care Hospice scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

VNA Care Hospice: 0.0 → 19.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.84× in 2024

VNA Care Hospice's TCR rose 19.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 19.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK #92/159
  • PHOTO Silver Angels -Carter
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silver Angels -Carter (0.0 TCR gap)

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VNA Care Hospice in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VNA Care Hospice averages 5.5 TCR (105% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

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

VNA Care Hospice TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=19.4 · BLS 5.2

Where VNA Care Hospice falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 159 Hospice care services, in home employers in Massachusetts.

VNA Care Hospice (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate VNA Care Hospice
VNA Care Hospice (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

VNA Care Hospice has fewer employees than the Hospice care services, in home median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 19.4 15.5 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Worcester

3,635 Hospice care services, in home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, 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 Silver Angels -Carter 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atrio Home Health - Grand Rapids 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARIS HEALTHCARE-COOKEVILLE, TN 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Francis Home Health 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE OPERATIONS CENTER - LOWELL DIV-MA40 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Building Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4675_10941 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fred Salvucci Corporation 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Runnings of Malone 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindbergh Bay Hotel and Villas 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Perry Lumber Co. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferguson Construction Comany-Columbus 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Appian Manufacturing Corp 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Appliance GWV 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAC Plastics Manufacturing, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridge 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.