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Massachusetts workplace safety

How 10,108 OSHA-reporting employers across Massachusetts compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.

10,108
Employers
5.5
Avg TCR
190,600
Injuries
86
Fatalities

The state picture

Massachusetts's 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 · per 100 workers
10,108
employers reporting
190,600
recordable injuries
86
worker fatalities

State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.

Massachusetts grade distribution 10,103 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Massachusetts'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 injury rate alone, Massachusetts is #38 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.

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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Ipswich Carrier Annex_1368015 Ipswich Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.8
2366 North Attleboro Warehouse Clubs and Supercen F 7.8
Ma1528-Bvsl-Bv Arlington Arlington NURSING AND RESIDENTIAL CARE F 7.8
Maple Street Day Habilitation Stoneham Day care centers for disable F 7.8
Trale Manomet, Inc. Plymouth Food (i.e., groceries) store F 7.8
Eastpointe Rehab LLC Chelsea Skilled nursing facilities C 7.8
Royal Falmouth Falmouth Nursing homes C 7.8
South Attleboro South Attleboro Second-hand merchandise stor F 7.7
243400-Haverhill Po Haverhill Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
56 Concetta Sass Dr., Randolph, MA 02368 Randolph Schools for the handicapped, F 7.7
FedEx 4 LAKELAND PARK DR Peabody Courier and Express Delivery C 7.7
Sippican Healthcare Center Marion Nursing homes C 7.7
6140-61400225 Southbridge All Other General Merchandis F 7.7
Blaire House of Worcester Worcester Skilled nursing facilities C 7.7
J Polep Distribution Services Chicopee General-line groceries merch F 7.7
5472-000001414 Medfield Supermarkets and Other Groce F 7.7
Suddekor at East Longmeadow East Longmeadow Paper Bag and Coated and Tre F 7.7
Wingate at Wilbraham Wilbraham Convalescent homes or conval C 7.7
Boston Central Kitchen Woburn Food Service Contractors F 7.7
Jomar Distributors Inc Watertown Boilers (e.g., heating, hot F 7.7
Barbour Welting Company Inc Brockton Leather welting manufacturin F 7.7
South Boston_1382113 Boston Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
240028-Bos-West Newton Br West Newton Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
AdCare Hospital OP Worcester Rehabilitation hospitals, al F 7.7
2375 Lowe S of Hudson Ma Hudson Homecenter F 7.7
61400222 Ma222 Middleboro Middleboro All Other General Merchandis F 7.7
63195 Sunrise of Leominster Leominster Nursing Care Facilities C 7.7
Stop & Shop 0422 Edgartown Grocery Stores F 7.7
Brookfield Wire Company, Inc. West Brookfield Wire, iron or steel (e.g., a F 7.7
DMS Dedham home health care D 7.7
99150 Whitman - F 7.7
Braintree Carrier Annex_1451491 Braintree Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
8192 Dracut Supermrkts & other grocery s F 7.7
EBO North Reading General freight trucking, lo D 7.7
Worthen Industries Clinton Clinton Plastics coating of textiles F 7.7
1010-1 Bellingham Ma Distribution Center Bellingham Other Miscellaneous Durable F 7.7
Waltham Lumber Co. Waltham Building materials supply de F 7.7
Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center Lenox Nursing homes C 7.7
6140-61400251 Wareham All Other General Merchandis F 7.7
Signature Breads Inc. Chelsea Frozen bread and bread-type F 7.7
BOS-SPF East Boston Airport operators (e.g., civ D 7.7
2258 - Stoughton Stoughton Discount Department Stores F 7.7
STTC Millbury Millbury Retreading tires F 7.7
RRSC Boston South Stoughton Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Pl F 7.7
Southampton Southampton - F 7.7
Nashoba Valley Medical Center Ayer General medical and surgical C 7.7
Industrial Polymers & Chemicals INC Shrew Laminating purchased textile F 7.7
Coke Northeast - Westborough Westborough General warehousing and stor D 7.7
BRIGHTON_1355854 Brighton Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
767 - Mansfield-MA Mansfield - F 7.7
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What Massachusetts's safety record means for you

Massachusetts averages a TCR of 5.5 - about 2.1× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.

State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.

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.