Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Woburn 55 & 78

Woburn, MA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Woburn 55 & 78 runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Woburn 55 & 78: 4.0 TCR = 184% of Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Woburn 55 & 78 safety composite

Woburn 55 & 78 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Woburn 55 & 78: 0.0 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.51× in 2018

Woburn 55 & 78's TCR rose 10.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Woburn, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #16/33
  • PHOTO Penco Corporation - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Penco Corporation - Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Woburn 55 & 78 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Woburn 55 & 78 averages 4.0 TCR (184% of the Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Woburn 55 & 78 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2 · 2018=10.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Woburn 55 & 78 falls in its industry

853 Plumbing supplies merchant who establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 33 Plumbing supplies merchant who employers in Massachusetts.

Woburn 55 & 78 (40 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Woburn 55 & 78
Woburn 55 & 78 (40 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Woburn 55 & 78 has more employees than the Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 10.2 10.2 5 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · MA · Woburn

853 Plumbing supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 187 employers in Woburn, 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 Penco Corporation - Headquarters 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Portland Group Billerica 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MA Lynn-400 Lynnway 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento Windustrial 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Hyde Park Gas 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield, MA 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dacon Corporation 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herzog Contracting Corp. - GLX Constructors 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Woburn_MA 1,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Woburn Merchants, Inc 1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woburn Marshalls Distribution Center 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEI Consultants, Inc. 837 FTE
NAT-TCR Golf and Country Club 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Toledo (Ohtlo) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lansing (Milan) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington (Kylxo) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mankato HQ MNE4 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE PP - Duryea CSC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE WW - Albany CSC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth - Ford 40 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: 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.