Home health care agencies · Massachusetts

VNA of Boston

Dorchester, MA · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VNA of Boston runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

VNA of Boston: 8.9 TCR = 172% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VNA of Boston safety composite

VNA of Boston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2019→2024

VNA of Boston injury rate improved

VNA of Boston's TCR fell 4.7 from 17.2 in 2019 to 12.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=17.2 · 2020=7.0 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=12.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 172% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #134/159
  • PHOTO 0627 - MHC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0627 - MHC (0.0 TCR gap)

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VNA of Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VNA of Boston averages 8.9 TCR (172% 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 of Boston TCR series: 2019=17.2 · 2020=7 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 5.2

Where VNA of Boston falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #134 safest of 159 Home health care agencies employers in Massachusetts.

VNA of Boston (57 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 of Boston
VNA of Boston (57 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

VNA of Boston has fewer 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 12.5 9.4 4 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2019 17.2 17.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Dorchester

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 58 employers in Dorchester, 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 0627 - MHC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Hospice 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1129 - HCD 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bronx Regional Office 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delphi Construction Inc 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timberline Construction Corporation 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbert & Becker Co., Inc 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE John F. Shea Co., Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Mass Ave 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Dorchester 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEENEY BROTHERS 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR 604 FREEPORT 465 FTE
NAT-TCR Slo Hq 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Connor Sports 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon City 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-CA-Victorville-Phantom West 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Runnings of Aberdeen 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSC Industries - Montgomery 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cole Industrial, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Mechanical Inc. 57 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.