Home health care agencies · Massachusetts

VNA Care Network 4

Needham, MA · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VNA Care Network 4 runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

VNA Care Network 4: 6.1 TCR = 117% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VNA Care Network 4 safety composite

VNA Care Network 4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 Network 4: 1.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

VNA Care Network 4's TCR rose 8.2 from 1.0 in 2019 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 6.1 · 117% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #104/159
  • PHOTO 0418 - LVV
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0418 - LVV (0.0 TCR gap)

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VNA Care Network 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VNA Care Network 4 averages 6.1 TCR (117% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

VNA Care Network 4 TCR series: 2019=1 · 2020=7.3 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 5.2

Where VNA Care Network 4 falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #104 safest of 159 Home health care agencies employers in Massachusetts.

VNA Care Network 4 (88 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Network 4
VNA Care Network 4 (88 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

VNA Care Network 4 has more employees than the Home health care agencies 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 9.3 5.6 5 0 0
2023 7.7 5.7 4 0 0
2022 5.2 3.5 3 0 0
2020 7.3 4.8 6 0 0
2019 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Needham

3,635 Home health care agencies 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR 0418 - LVV 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Home Care Inc- Pasco 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Competent Care Home Health Nursing 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Health Agency 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Hadley 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Bernardston 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.A. Senecal Electrical Services, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR C&W Services 12,800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Justice Resource Institute 1,313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beth Israel Deaconess Needham 1,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham 863 FTE
NAT-TCR Schilling St John 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aloha Termite Kauai Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Insight Pipe Contracting LP 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 113GVA 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holly Springs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runnings Corporate 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guy Bennett Lumber Co. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monsma Marketing Corporation 88 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.

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