Cottage construction general contractors · Massachusetts

Western Builders

Granby, MA · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Builders runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cottage construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Western Builders: 5.0 TCR = 132% of Cottage construction general contractors BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Builders safety composite

Western Builders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Western Builders: 0.0 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Western Builders's TCR rose 12.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236115 · Granby, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO Capstone Construction
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Capstone Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Builders averages 5.0 TCR (132% of the Cottage construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Western Builders TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=7.7 · 2021=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Western Builders falls in its industry

976 Cottage construction general c establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Cottage construction general c employers in Massachusetts.

Western Builders (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Builders
Western Builders (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Western Builders has fewer employees than the Cottage construction general contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 12.2 0.0 3 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.7 5.7 4 0 0
2018 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236115 · MA · Granby

976 Cottage construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 Capstone Construction 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erickson Framing NV LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSP-DWH-COLORADO SPRINGS 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JSH & Sons, LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Town of Danvers, Electric Division 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDDLESEX GASES & TECHNOLOGIES, INC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core Concepts Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nauset Construction Corp. 37 FTE
NAT-TCR LFW 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 700 Cooper 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Bremen, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Loop 1604 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comfort Mfg 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bronco Logistics 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Ecology Detroit Service Center 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo 37 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.