Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees

Lexington, MA · ~1,615 workers · 3 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

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees: 1.1 TCR = 34% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees safety composite

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.5

2016→2018

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees injury rate improved

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.3 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Lexington, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #17/27
  • PHOTO Osmotica Pharmaceuti…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~1,615 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Osmotica Pharmaceutical US LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees averages 1.1 TCR (34% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #17 safest of 27 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in Massachusetts.

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees (1,615 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees
Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees (1,615 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Shire: USA Field/Sales Employees has more employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a lower 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
2018 0.8 0.4 14 0 0
2017 1.3 0.3 22 1 0
2016 1.3 0.6 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · MA · Lexington

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 48 employers in Lexington, 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 Osmotica Pharmaceutical US LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avara Aiken Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ash Stevens Riverview 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Matthey Pharmaceutical Materials-RS 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northeast Security 1,623 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital 1,627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. National HQs 1,631 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER 1,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR Takeda: USA Field Sales Employees 2,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR KabaFusion Holdings LLC 1,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation Lexington 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shire: 95 Hayden 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Heidenhain Corporation Jamestown 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glatfelter - Spring Grove 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HoneywellCA3J 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stenstrom General Contractor - Design/Build Group 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sonic Net LLC 1,615 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverview Medical Center 1,614 FTE
NAT-SIZE OhioHealth Corporation - Corporate 1,616 FTE
NAT-SIZE Disney Parks Technology Services Co., LLC 1,616 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.