Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Waterworks 108

Malden, MA · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterworks 108 runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterworks 108: 6.0 TCR = 270% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterworks 108 safety composite

Waterworks 108 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Waterworks 108: 0.0 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Waterworks 108's TCR rose 13.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 13.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Malden, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 270% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Mountain Home
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mountain Home (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterworks 108 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterworks 108 averages 6.0 TCR (270% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Waterworks 108 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.2 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=13 · BLS 2.2

Where Waterworks 108 falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Massachusetts.

Waterworks 108 (22 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterworks 108
Waterworks 108 (22 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Waterworks 108 has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 13.0 8.7 3 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 0 1 0
2019 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2018 12.2 4.1 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · MA · Malden

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 40 employers in Malden, 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 Mountain Home 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 202253 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Orlando 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR COASTAL WIPERS INC 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Falls Aquaculture 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANP Bellingham Energy Company LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE 65 Essex Road 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryan Construction, Inc. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4459 Associated Home Care, LLC 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associated Home Care Location 7 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associated Home Care Location 8 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Camarillo 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Triple S Air Systems Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Logistics Services - Walnut 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Clinic 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Austin Powder Midsouth - LaFollette 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Heyworth 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.J. Millworkers 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Creek Products, LLC 22 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.