Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing · Massachusetts

AV Westford

Westford, MA · ~243 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AV Westford runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AV Westford: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AV Westford safety composite

AV Westford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2018

AV Westford injury rate improved

AV Westford's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Westford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/50
  • PHOTO Tandem Diabetes Inc.…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tandem Diabetes Inc. Headquarters 12400 Highlbluff Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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AV Westford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AV Westford averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AV Westford TCR series: 2017=0.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where AV Westford falls in its industry

741 Surgical and Medical Instrumen establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 50 Surgical and Medical Instrumen employers in Massachusetts.

AV Westford (243 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate AV Westford
AV Westford (243 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

AV Westford has more employees than the Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · MA · Westford

741 Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 32 employers in Westford, 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 Tandem Diabetes Inc. Headquarters 12400 Highlbluff Drive 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diagnostics : Leica Biosystems (Aperio) - Vista 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inogen, Inc. 2 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AV Temecula Campus 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAINTREE-MA06 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1100 TECHNOLOGY PARK DRIVE 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holyoke Mall At Ingleside 178 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2267 - Easton 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR UTC Aerospace Systems (Westford MA) 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR UTC Aerospace Systems 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Netscout 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodrich Corporation (Westford MA) 508 FTE
NAT-TCR DTW - Airport United Airlines Offices 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton Headquarters 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KCP&L - Raytown Customer Service Center 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinseo LLC Michigan Operations 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fastener 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambulance Transportation 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Vista 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chassix Benton Harbor 243 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: 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.