Grocery stores · Massachusetts

Volante Farms Inc

Needham, MA · ~145 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volante Farms Inc runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Volante Farms Inc: 9.3 TCR = 275% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volante Farms Inc safety composite

Volante Farms Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−16.5

2016→2024

Volante Farms Inc injury rate improved

Volante Farms Inc's TCR fell 16.5 from 19.3 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.3 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=11.0 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Needham, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 275% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #748/842
  • PHOTO ABS-0029-0028-00598 …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABS-0029-0028-00598 FAC-00598-SANTA ANA-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Volante Farms Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volante Farms Inc averages 9.3 TCR (275% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Volante Farms Inc TCR series: 2016=19.3 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=11 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Volante Farms Inc falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #748 safest of 842 Grocery stores employers in Massachusetts.

Volante Farms Inc (145 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Volante Farms Inc
Volante Farms Inc (145 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Volante Farms Inc has more employees than the Grocery stores 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 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2023 11.0 2.7 12 0 0
2022 5.7 1.9 6 0 0
2021 8.1 4.0 8 0 0
2016 19.3 1.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Needham

30,654 Grocery stores 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 ABS-0029-0028-00598 FAC-00598-SANTA ANA-CA 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 63-Indio 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 69030002-22 CARDENAS MARKETS 222 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPER STOP & SHOP 2513 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Easthampton 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gladding Hearn Shipbuilding 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen Medical Systems, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2679 SOUTH BAYBOSTON 145 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - HSF2 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAB4 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - ABE4 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice Burlington - 0567 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br4 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DPD7 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI1 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Dam Wi 145 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, 2021, 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.