State profile · OSHA ITA
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.
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.
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
Page 47 of 202| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coke Northeast - Greenfield | Greenfield | General warehousing and stor | D | 7.3 |
| Hotel Boston Common | Boston | Hotel management services (i | F | 7.3 |
| 2662-7010 | Hyde Park | Bus and Other Motor Vehicle | D | 7.3 |
| 2174 | Westfield | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.3 |
| 1059 | Chicopee | MOTELS/HOTELS | F | 7.3 |
| Adcare Hospital of Worcester, INC | Worcester | Alcoholism rehabilitation ho | D | 7.3 |
| FedEx 775 SUMMER ST | Boston | Courier and Express Delivery | C | 7.3 |
| Rathbone Precision Metals, Inc. | Palmer | Bars, steel, made in cold ro | F | 7.3 |
| 5472-000004595 | Hyannis | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.3 |
| Truss Engineering Corporation | Indian Orchard | Pharmaceutical manufacturing | F | 7.3 |
| Stop & Shop 100037 | Worcester | Grocery Stores | F | 7.3 |
| Century Box Division | Methuen | Folding boxes (except corrug | F | 7.3 |
| 2267 - Easton | South Easton | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.2 |
| G. Mello / Salisbury Maintenance | Georgetown | Garbage collection services | F | 7.2 |
| Biomedical Polymers Inc | Sterling | Injection molding machinery | F | 7.2 |
| Rand-Whitney Boylston | Boylston | Boxes, corrugated and solid | F | 7.2 |
| Mid City Steel - MA | Westport | Pig iron merchant wholesaler | F | 7.2 |
| 100110002711-Lia-Logan Airport Terminal E | East Boston | Services to Buildings | D | 7.2 |
| Retail East - Bridgewater | Bridgewater | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | F | 7.2 |
| 8005 | Middleboro | Supermrkts & other grocery s | F | 7.2 |
| 03-Boston Terminal | North Reading | General freight trucking, lo | D | 7.2 |
| Memorial Avenue | West Springfield | - | F | 7.2 |
| 100003 | Framingham | - | F | 7.2 |
| Wte Recycling | Greenfield | Recyclable materials (e.g., | F | 7.2 |
| 08019 - Store # 8019 Gardner | Gardner | Grocery Stores | F | 7.2 |
| 245440-North Easton Po | North Easton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.2 |
| Foodland Distribution LLC | Brockton | Agricultural products trucki | D | 7.2 |
| 10691 Sudbury | Sudbury | - | F | 7.2 |
| Bear Mountain at Worcester | Worcester | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.2 |
| Kringle Candle Company | Bernardston | Candles manufacturing | F | 7.2 |
| Associated Home Care Location 14 | West Springfield | Home health care agencies | D | 7.2 |
| East Wareham Treatment Center | Wareham | Outpatient mental health and | D | 7.2 |
| Westfield Electroplating Company | Westfield | Electroplating metals and fo | F | 7.2 |
| Ahead HQ | New Bedford | Apparel findings and trimmin | F | 7.2 |
| 24 | Brockton | Couriers and express deliver | C | 7.2 |
| Fisher Auto Parts - WOOSTER | Worcester | Automotive parts and supply | F | 7.2 |
| Barbour Plastics Inc | Brockton | Profile shapes (e.g., rod, t | F | 7.2 |
| 1143 Plymouth | Plymouth | Retail | F | 7.2 |
| VNA of Boston 1 | Weymouth | Home health care agencies | D | 7.2 |
| 1898 - Boston South Bay | Dorchester | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.2 |
| Kayem Foods, Inc | Chelsea | Meats, fresh or chilled (ex | F | 7.2 |
| Co 23 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc | Worcester | Refrigerated warehousing | D | 7.2 |
| 2659 S Attleboro | South Attleboro | Home Centers | F | 7.2 |
| Keiver-Willard Lumber Corp | Newburyport | Lumber (e.g., dressed, finis | F | 7.2 |
| 1674 Swn79 | Medford | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.2 |
| Thomas J. Kennedy Plumbing | Raynham | Plumbing contractors | F | 7.2 |
| 99151 | Agawam | - | F | 7.2 |
| Converting 1 | Gardner | Flexible packaging, plastics | F | 7.2 |
| Complete Recycling Solutions, LLC | Fall River | Recyclable materials (e.g., | F | 7.2 |
| Deacon Transportation | South Boston | Scenic and Sightseeing Trans | D | 7.2 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.
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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.