Retail Hardware Stores · Massachusetts

West Springfield, Ma #00273

W. Springfield, MA · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Springfield, Ma #00273 runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

West Springfield, Ma #00273: 3.5 TCR = 103% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Springfield, Ma #00273 safety composite

West Springfield, Ma #00273 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

West Springfield, Ma #00273: 0.0 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.7× in 2023

West Springfield, Ma #00273's TCR rose 9.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · W. Springfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 103% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #6/18
  • PHOTO CHCNJ
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHCNJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Springfield, Ma #00273 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Springfield, Ma #00273 averages 3.5 TCR (103% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

West Springfield, Ma #00273 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.4 · BLS 3.4

Where West Springfield, Ma #00273 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 18 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Massachusetts.

West Springfield, Ma #00273 (18 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate West Springfield, Ma #00273
West Springfield, Ma #00273 (18 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

West Springfield, Ma #00273 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 9.4 9.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · MA · W. Springfield

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 5 employers in W. Springfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CHCNJ 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm & Home Supply Pittsfield 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KENT, WA #00190 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HATTIESBURG, MS #00511 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluepoint Wind 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Channel Building Company Inc 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5021 - Halifax MA - Leasing 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. White Marine, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR 48 Capital Drive, W. Springfield, MA 01089 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08-SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Springfield School 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111-2 Elm Street. W. Springfield MA 01089 49 FTE
NAT-TCR McLeansboro plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Oncology - Minneapolis 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hattiesburg, Ms #00511 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0651 - Orlando Fl Bus Ctr 3.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.