Medical research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) · Massachusetts

300 Third Street Cambridge MA

Cambridge, MA · ~374 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

300 Third Street Cambridge MA runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Medical research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) workplace, earning a grade D.

300 Third Street Cambridge MA: 0.7 TCR = 142% of Medical research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

300 Third Street Cambridge MA safety composite

300 Third Street Cambridge MA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

300 Third Street Cambridge MA held a steady TCR band

300 Third Street Cambridge MA's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.1 · 2021=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Cambridge, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 0.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Otis Elevator Compan…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Otis Elevator Company-Research Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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300 Third Street Cambridge MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 300 Third Street Cambridge MA averages 0.7 TCR (142% of the Medical research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS benchmark).

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

300 Third Street Cambridge MA TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.1 · 2021=0.3 · BLS 0.5

Where 300 Third Street Cambridge MA falls in its industry

319 Medical research and developme establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Medical research and developme employers in Massachusetts.

300 Third Street Cambridge MA (374 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 300 Third Street Cambridge MA
300 Third Street Cambridge MA (374 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

300 Third Street Cambridge MA has more employees than the Medical research and development laborat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2021 0.3 0.3 0 1 0
2018 1.1 0.7 5 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · MA · Cambridge

319 Medical research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 149 employers in Cambridge, 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 Otis Elevator Company-Research Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Business and Innovation Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Lab Research and Testing 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Princeton R&D 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Market Basket #73 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROCHE BROS - WEST ROXBURY 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1967 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE Market Basket #82 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 5,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinfen Corporation 2,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biogen - Cambridge 2,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambridge Campus 2,473 FTE
NAT-TCR Youngstown, OH HVAC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Evansville, IN HVAC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque, NM/El Paso, TX HVAC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ac Distribution, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grupo Hima San Pablo 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK-896-Waverly ( RK-896 ) 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-MO02 374 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: 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.