Mental health facilities, residential · Massachusetts

Walker, Inc.

Needham, MA · ~257 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walker, Inc. runs at 517% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mental health facilities, residential workplace, earning a grade F.

Walker, Inc.: 19.6 TCR = 517% of Mental health facilities, residential BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walker, Inc. safety composite

Walker, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Walker, Inc.: 15.7 → 21.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 27.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Walker, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.8 from 15.7 in 2016 to 21.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Needham, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 517% of ind

  • DART 17.5 DART
  • RANK #48/52
  • PHOTO St. Monica Program
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 323 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Monica Program (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walker, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walker, Inc. averages 19.6 TCR (517% of the Mental health facilities, residential BLS benchmark).

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

Walker, Inc. TCR series: 2016=15.7 · 2017=22.4 · 2018=22 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=27.7 · 2023=18.7 · 2024=21.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Walker, Inc. falls in its industry

1,165 Mental health facilities, resi establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #48 safest of 52 Mental health facilities, resi employers in Massachusetts.

Walker, Inc. (257 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Walker, Inc.
Walker, Inc. (257 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Walker, Inc. has more employees than the Mental health facilities, residential 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 21.5 17.5 43 0 0
2023 18.7 15.1 42 0 0
2021 27.7 24.1 61 0 0
2020 9.4 7.6 21 5 0
2018 22.0 19.5 54 0 0
2017 22.4 16.7 57 2 0
2016 15.7 13.0 45 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · MA · Needham

1,165 Mental health facilities, residential 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 St. Monica Program 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 03-045 PASADENA ARC 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Street Transition Center 19.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bear Creek 19.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Judd Wire 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Symmons Braintree Corporate 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE United East 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.L.Harvey & Sons, Inc. 257 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 Warren Construction & Roofing, Inc 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Bungalows at Fayetteville 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Montebello 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Orangevale #054 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arkema Inc. Calvert City Plant 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dillard Plywood 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works - Operations 257 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.