Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing · Massachusetts

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA

Northampton, MA · ~287 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA safety composite

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA held a steady TCR band

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · Northampton, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO II-VI Optical System…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~287 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: II-VI Optical Systems - Philadelphia (0.0 TCR gap)

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L3 KEO - Northampton, MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L3 KEO - Northampton, MA averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where L3 KEO - Northampton, MA falls in its industry

145 Optical gun sighting and fire establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Optical gun sighting and fire employers in Massachusetts.

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA (287 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate L3 KEO - Northampton, MA
L3 KEO - Northampton, MA (287 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

L3 KEO - Northampton, MA has more employees than the Optical gun sighting and fire control eq median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2019 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 1.8 1.1 5 0 0
2016 0.7 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · MA · Northampton

145 Optical gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 40 employers in Northampton, 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 II-VI Optical Systems - Philadelphia 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brunson Cave 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR II-VI Optical Systems - Murrieta 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR II-VI Aerospace & Defense - Murrieta 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Northborough MA 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytron Inc now known as Boyd Corporation (Woburn), Inc 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2095 287 FTE
STATE-SIZE 249622-WORCESTER PO 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL 1,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooley Dickinson Practice Assoc. 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON PRACTICE ASSOCIATES 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coca-Cola Northampton 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Indianapolis - Instruments & Implants 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Sprinkler Co., Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cushman Contracting Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SAGE Teller Office, US 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate - Naperville 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE KTA-Tator, Inc 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Virginia Farm 287 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black Canyon 287 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.