TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.5 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Massachusetts workplace safety
How 10,108 OSHA-reporting employers across Massachusetts compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 8,820 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 10,108
- Employers
- 5.5
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 190,600
- Injuries (all)
- 86
- Fatalities (all)
Massachusetts vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
10,108 18th of 54 higher than 36 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Massachusetts's 8,820 rated reporting employers average 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.5
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 8,820
- rated employers
- 10,108
- all reporting employers
- 190,600
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 10,108 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 15% B · 11% C · 28% D · 21% F · 24%
24% of Massachusetts's reporting establishments earn an F and 15% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Massachusetts ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMassachusetts's average TCR of 5.5 is lower than 30% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Massachusetts is #38 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 8,820-employer subset), it's #8 of 54, a 30-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Massachusetts Workplaces Compare
Massachusetts hosts 10,108 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Massachusetts cohort, workers have logged 190,600 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 8,820 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 86 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Massachusetts, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Massachusetts, by injury rate
Page 4 of 202| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher House of Worcester | Worcester | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 20.0 |
| 2576-40690000-4069 | South Attleboro | Psychiatric Hospital | F | 19.9 |
| Trader Joe's 0503 Framingham | Framingham | Grocery Store | F | 19.9 |
| 9288-2 | Agawam | Healthcare Facility | F | 19.8 |
| 4769-6271-OUTLETS | Northborough | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | F | 19.8 |
| ABF Freight 047 | Seekonk | Transportation | F | 19.8 |
| Trader Joe's 0512 Hadley | Hadley | Grocery Store | F | 19.8 |
| Stoneham (Manre) | North Reading | General Freight Trucking Loc | F | 19.7 |
| Kre-Bsl Husky Wilbraham Operation LLC | Wilbraham | Assisted Living Facilities f | F | 19.7 |
| Walker, Inc. | Needham | Mental health facilities, re | F | 19.6 |
| Mill Hill Residence | West Yarmouth | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 19.6 |
| 242115-Fhv-Fairhaven Carrier Annex Sta | Fairhaven | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 19.6 |
| METHN-MSPCA-Methuen ACAC | Methuen | Animal shelters | F | 19.6 |
| Nai-0033-0033-06652 Fac-06652-Methuen-Ma | Methuen | General Warehousing and Stor | F | 19.5 |
| Clifton Assisted Living | Somerset | Old age homes without nursin | F | 19.5 |
| 240044-Bos-North Weymouth Br | North Weymouth | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 19.4 |
| East Longmeadow Animal Hospital | East Longmeadow | Veterinary Services | F | 19.4 |
| Shawnlee Construction | Plainville | Carpentry, framing | F | 19.4 |
| Liberty Movers, Inc. | Leicester | Trucking, general freight, l | F | 19.3 |
| Seatrade north | New Bedford | Seafood and seafood products | F | 19.3 |
| North Adams Commons Nursing & Rehab | No Adams | Nursing homes | F | 19.2 |
| MTG Disposal, LLC | Seekonk | Refuse collection services | F | 19.2 |
| Associated Marketing Systems, Inc. | Holbrook | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | F | 19.1 |
| BOS - Ground Ops | East Boston | Transportation | F | 19.1 |
| Merrimack Valley Dist. Co. | Danvers | Beverages, alcoholic (except | F | 19.1 |
| ODWALLA-BOSTON | Wilmington | Juices, canned or fresh, mer | F | 19.0 |
| The Arbors at Taunton | Taunton | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 19.0 |
| Armada Waste, Hyde Park MA | Hyde Park | Refuse collection services | F | 18.9 |
| 96920042-1 Local Motion-Braintree | Braintree | School bus services | F | 18.9 |
| The Arbors at Amherst | Amherst | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 18.9 |
| Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge | Cambridge | Grocery Store | F | 18.9 |
| 4186-07716 | Boston | All Other General Merchandis | F | 18.9 |
| Bear Mountain Healthcare Andover | Andover | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 18.8 |
| Woodbriar | Falmouth | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 18.8 |
| The Residence at Peal Street | Reading | Homes for the aged with nurs | F | 18.8 |
| 2576-051 | South Attleboro | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | F | 18.8 |
| The Residence at Penniman Hill | Hingham | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 18.8 |
| Brookfield Wire, LLC. | W Brookfield | Wire products, iron or steel | F | 18.7 |
| Residence Inn Westford | Westford | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 18.7 |
| Plymouth Medical Investors LLC d/b/a Life Care Center Of Plymouth | Plymouth | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 18.7 |
| Anthonys Coal Fired Pizza of Littleton LLC | Littleton | COMMISSARY WORK ALL OTHER EM | F | 18.7 |
| Skinner Services Inc. | Avon | Demolition contractor | F | 18.7 |
| Plastic Design, Inc. | N. Chelmsford | Tanks, storage, plastics or | F | 18.7 |
| Kane Logistics - Norwood | Norwood | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | F | 18.6 |
| Bursaw Gas & Oil, Inc. | Acton | Alternative fuels, direct se | F | 18.6 |
| WEBSTER_1386789 | Webster | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 18.6 |
| Trader Joe's 0510 Boston | Boston | Grocery Store | F | 18.6 |
| 6140-61400201 | Springfield | All Other General Merchandis | F | 18.5 |
| 26 | Middleboro | Couriers and express deliver | F | 18.5 |
| Gardner Day Habiitation Program | Webster | Activity centers for disable | F | 18.5 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Massachusetts: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.5 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (10,108 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.