Employer · Massachusetts

AbbVie Bioresearch Center

Name: AbbVie Bioresearch Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Worcester, MA · ~1,005 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 0.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

AbbVie Bioresearch Center runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

AbbVie Bioresearch Center: 0.6 TCR = 114% of industry BLS 0.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AbbVie Bioresearch Center safety composite

AbbVie Bioresearch Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: F 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

AbbVie Bioresearch Center held a steady TCR band

AbbVie Bioresearch Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.9 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.2 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541711 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 0.6 · 114% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #15/23
PHOTO Novartis Institutes …
BOOK 8y book
INJ 45 inj
SIZE ~1,005 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows AbbVie Bioresearch Center averages 0.6 TCR (114% of the industry BLS benchmark).

AbbVie Bioresearch Center TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.2 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 0.5

Where AbbVie Bioresearch Center falls in its industry

189 industry establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 industry employers in Massachusetts.

AbbVie Bioresearch Center (1,005 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8

AbbVie Bioresearch Center has more employees than the industry 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
2024	0.9	0.5	12	0
2023	0.3	0.2	4	0
2022	0.6	0.6	6	0
2021	0.4	0.1	4	0
2020	0.2	0.0	2	0
2019	0.3	0.1	3	0
2018	0.9	0.6	8	0
2017	0.9	0.3	6	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541711 · MA · Worcester

189 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc.	CAMBRIDGE, MA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Battelle - Atlanta Operations - Roybal Campus	ATLANTA, GA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BSW CTX RESEARCH	TEMPLE, TX	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	illumina	SAN DIEGO, CA	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Maestro-Connections VNA	AUBURN	1,002 FTE
STATE-SIZE	South Shore YMCA	NORWELL	1,002 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Enel Green Power North America	ANDOVER	999 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WGBH Educational Foundation	BRIGHTON	998 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UMass Memorial Health	Worcester	12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4701-813	Worcester	2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Vincent hospital	Worcester	1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NBC Distributors Inc	Worcester	1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cratus Inc Main Office	San Francisco, CA	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sherman Plastics Corporation	Naperville, IL	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Franklin Electric - Oklahoma City	Oklahoma City, OK	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	USA MD Crisfield Plant	Crisfield, MD	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Emser Tile	Los Angeles, CA	1,005 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Medina Hospital	Medina, OH	1,005 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - SDF1	Campbellsville, KY	1,005 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership	Deer Park, TX	1,005 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.