Printers, computer, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Desktop Metal, Inc.

Burlington, MA · ~250 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Desktop Metal, Inc. runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Printers, computer, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Desktop Metal, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Printers, computer, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Desktop Metal, Inc. safety composite

Desktop Metal, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Desktop Metal, Inc.: 1.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Desktop Metal, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 1.0 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334118 · Burlington, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Cortron, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~250 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cortron, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Desktop Metal, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Desktop Metal, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Printers, computer, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Desktop Metal, Inc. TCR series: 2019=1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.8 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Desktop Metal, Inc. falls in its industry

48 Printers, computer, manufactur establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Desktop Metal, Inc. (250 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.1 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Desktop Metal, Inc.
Desktop Metal, Inc. (250 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.1

Desktop Metal, Inc. has more employees than the Printers, computer, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.1. 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 1.8 0.6 3 0 0
2022 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2021 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2019 1.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334118 · MA · Burlington

48 Printers, computer, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 89 employers in Burlington, 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 Cortron, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hope Industrial Systems, Inc., Roswell, Georgia 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Markforged Headquarters 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Topaz Systems Inc 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J.C. Higgins Corp. 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Company Headquarters 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Breads Inc. 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savant Systems, Inc 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lahey Hospital and Medical Center 4,493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington, MA 4,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lahey Medical Center 4,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMD Millipore Corporation - 400 Summit 838 FTE
NAT-TCR Ufp Kyle LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RP Los Angeles 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Busa - Corporate 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi-Lite Airfield Services, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baptist DeBoer Building 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Largo 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Pevely 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenai Refinery 250 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.