Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford

Name: Anika Therapeutics - Bedford Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Bedford, MA · ~151 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford safety composite

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2022

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #10/27
PHOTO Piramal Pharma Solut…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Piramal Pharma Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

This site

0.6
Piramal Pharma

0.6
UCB Smyrna

0.6
Aspen API

0.6
Heron Therapeu

0.6

What this shows Anika Therapeutics - Bedford averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Anika Therapeutics - Bedford falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 27 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in Massachusetts.

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford (151 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Anika Therapeutics - Bedford has fewer employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2022	1.2	1.2	2
2021	0.7	0.7	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · MA · Bedford

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 50 employers in Bedford, 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	Piramal Pharma Solutions	RIVERVIEW, MI	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UCB Smyrna	SMYRNA, GA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aspen API	SIOUX CITY, IA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Heron Therapeutics San Diego	SAN DIEGO, CA	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HOPEDALE-MA14	HOPEDALE	151 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NER	WILMINGTON	151 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hazen Paper - Main Plant	HOLYOKE	151 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brammer Bio Lexington	LEXINGTON	151 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Instrumentation Laboratory	Bedford	1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bedford - 174 Middlesex Pkwy	Bedford	453 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EMD Millipore - 80 Ashby and 75 Wiggins	Bedford	422 FTE
CITY-NEAR	State Electric Corporation	Bedford	419 FTE
NAT-TCR	Office of the Governer (6)	Juneau, AK	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Region 01 CCSR NY - GNE 90-01-01-96	Clearwater, FL	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Steel Masters , L.P.	Houston, TX	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Information Technology	Auburn, CA	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	GA - Solar / Tesla	Fairburn, GA	151 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Forwood Manor	Wilmington, DE	151 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Menasha Packaging Company - Chicago	Chicago, IL	151 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Soho #633	New York, NY	151 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.