Pallet Wood Plant · Massachusetts

Westborough,MA - 270

Westborough, MA · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westborough,MA - 270 runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade F.

Westborough,MA - 270: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westborough,MA - 270 safety composite

Westborough,MA - 270 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Westborough,MA - 270: 5.7 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Westborough,MA - 270's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.7 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Westborough, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #12/20
  • PHOTO Valley Pallet - Sacr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Pallet - Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westborough,MA - 270 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westborough,MA - 270 averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Westborough,MA - 270 TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Westborough,MA - 270 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 20 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Massachusetts.

Westborough,MA - 270 (52 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Westborough,MA - 270
Westborough,MA - 270 (52 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Westborough,MA - 270 has more employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 7.0 4.7 3 0 0
2023 9.8 7.8 5 0 0
2022 5.7 5.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MA · Westborough

952 Pallet Wood Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 67 employers in Westborough, 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 Valley Pallet - Sacramento 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mil-Spec - MAC - 8150 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenger Pallet Idaho 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tree Brand Packaging- TN 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunBug Solar 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE North East Specialty Corp. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tocci Building Corporation 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timberline Communications Inc. 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Site Services 3,950 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanofi Westborough 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cumberland Farms - Westboro Distribution Center 562 FTE
NAT-TCR Hillside Warehouse & Trucking Co., Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimmerman Metals, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Breaux Mart Supermarkets #6 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Heglar Creek Dairy 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Central,TX Plant - 591 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Sintered Technologies 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bass Air Conditioning Company,Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chivers Construction Co., Inc. 52 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. 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.