Agar culture media manufacturing · Massachusetts

Brammer Bio Plainville

Plainville, MA · ~191 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brammer Bio Plainville runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Brammer Bio Plainville: 0.3 TCR = 9% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brammer Bio Plainville safety composite

Brammer Bio Plainville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Brammer Bio Plainville: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Brammer Bio Plainville's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Plainville, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/37
  • PHOTO Resilience Inc, Durh…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Resilience Inc, Durham NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brammer Bio Plainville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brammer Bio Plainville averages 0.3 TCR (9% of the Agar culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brammer Bio Plainville TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Brammer Bio Plainville falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 37 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in Massachusetts.

Brammer Bio Plainville (191 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Brammer Bio Plainville
Brammer Bio Plainville (191 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Brammer Bio Plainville has fewer employees than the Agar culture media manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2024 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · MA · Plainville

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 15 employers in Plainville, 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 Resilience Inc, Durham NC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miltenyi Biotec - Auburn 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Repligen Corporation 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHRG-BOS Sales & Marketing 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.J. Keating Company-Lunenburg 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rand-Whitney Packaging Corp., Worcester, MA 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Philips Fall River 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1930 - Plainville 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plainridge Park Casino 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2393 LOWE S OF PLAINVILLE MA 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shawnlee Construction 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - Delaware 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Michels Pipeline Inc-WI-Brownsville 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carl Zeiss Sbe LLC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Resilience Inc, Durham NC 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Intech Mechanical Company, LLC 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE 157 - SR 28 Miami Twp 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE SprintRay Inc. 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Point Loma Rehabilitation Center 191 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. 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.