Machine shops · Massachusetts

Designwerkes, Inc.

Amesbury, MA · ~47 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Designwerkes, Inc. runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Designwerkes, Inc.: 9.5 TCR = 288% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Designwerkes, Inc. safety composite

Designwerkes, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−2.7

2020→2024

Designwerkes, Inc. injury rate improved

Designwerkes, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 12.1 in 2020 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.1 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=12.9 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=9.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Amesbury, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 288% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/54
  • PHOTO California Manufactu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Manufacturing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Designwerkes, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Designwerkes, Inc. averages 9.5 TCR (288% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Designwerkes, Inc. TCR series: 2020=12.1 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=12.9 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Designwerkes, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 54 Machine shops employers in Massachusetts.

Designwerkes, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Designwerkes, Inc.
Designwerkes, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Designwerkes, Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 9.4 0.0 4 1 0
2023 7.1 4.7 3 0 0
2022 12.9 0.0 5 0 0
2021 5.9 4.0 2 1 0
2020 12.1 4.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MA · Amesbury

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 18 employers in Amesbury, 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 California Manufacturing, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Plating and Machine Inc 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL Toolholders 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Technologies, Inc. 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Roofing, Inc 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics Cooperative, Inc 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE MONSON-MA23 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE 855-NiSource-Westborough MA 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Corporation 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARC Technologies 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100499 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR STOP & SHOP 100499 111 FTE
NAT-TCR New Holland Brewing Production Campus 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Festival Foods Andover 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake County FL Wall Panel 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cape Coral Cluster 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1004-70 GoJet EWR Inflight 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Holly Municipal Utilities Authority 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halimar Shipyard LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia - 01 47 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. 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.