Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointment · Massachusetts

PolyCarbon Industries

Newburyport, MA · ~104 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PolyCarbon Industries runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointment workplace, earning a grade F.

PolyCarbon Industries: 9.0 TCR = 272% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointment BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PolyCarbon Industries safety composite

PolyCarbon Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

PolyCarbon Industries: 8.2 → 26.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.92× in 2021

PolyCarbon Industries's TCR rose 18.0 from 8.2 in 2016 to 26.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Newburyport, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 272% of ind

  • DART 26.2 DART
  • RANK #25/27
  • PHOTO Captek Vista (J&D La…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Captek Vista (J&D Laboratories) (0.1 TCR gap)

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PolyCarbon Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PolyCarbon Industries averages 9.0 TCR (272% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointment BLS benchmark).

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

PolyCarbon Industries TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=4.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=26.2 · BLS 3.3

Where PolyCarbon Industries falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 27 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in Massachusetts.

PolyCarbon Industries (104 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate PolyCarbon Industries
PolyCarbon Industries (104 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

PolyCarbon Industries has fewer employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2021 26.2 26.2 3 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 2 2 0
2018 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 3 0 0
2016 8.2 5.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · MA · Newburyport

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in Newburyport, 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 Captek Vista (J&D Laboratories) 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Building 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mobren Transport 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amneal-65 RR Branchburg 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE RWE Offshore Wind Services LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE PJ Keating Lunenburg 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE 221-MA-Massachusetts Central 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kaleido Biosciences, Inc 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anna Jaques Hospital 946 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISREAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL ANNA JAQUES 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Electronics LLC 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turning Point, Inc. 334 FTE
NAT-TCR ERMC - Chattanooga 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk Terminal 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Bi Products North Redwood Falls 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Klaussner Plant 91 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sonesta Gwinnett Place - Atlanta 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milner Technologies, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&D Ingredient Distributors, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Fab - 2090 104 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: 2021, 2020, 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.