Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing · Massachusetts

Smith Nephew

Name: Smith Nephew Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Mansfield, MA · ~548 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smith Nephew runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smith Nephew: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Nephew safety composite

Smith Nephew scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−0.6

2016→2020

Smith Nephew injury rate improved

Smith Nephew's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.1 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=1.3 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Mansfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #21/50
PHOTO BD Caribe LTD Juncos
BOOK 4y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~548 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BD Caribe LTD Juncos (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.9
BD Caribe LTD

0.9
Kirwan Surgica

0.9
Tecomet

0.9
DSM Biomedical

0.9

What this shows Smith Nephew averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Smith Nephew TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.3 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith Nephew falls in its industry

741 Surgical knife blades and hand establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 50 Surgical knife blades and hand employers in Massachusetts.

Smith Nephew (548 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Smith Nephew has more employees than the Surgical knife blades and handles manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2020	0.5	0.5	2
2019	0.7	0.7	3
2017	1.3	1.1	8
2016	1.1	1.1	7

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · MA · Mansfield

741 Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 68 employers in Mansfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	BD Caribe LTD Juncos	JUNCOS, PR	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kirwan Surgical Products, LLC	MARSHFIELD, MA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tecomet	BOULDER, CO	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DSM Biomedical - Pennsylvania Drive Site	EXTON, PA	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	BAS - Baystate Administrative Services	SPRINGFIELD	548 FTE
STATE-SIZE	244591-MIDDLESEX-ESSEX MA P&DC	NORTH READING	547 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Seniorlink Inc	BOSTON	547 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Live Nation Worldwide	MANSFIELD	549 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mansfield Sales/Admin.	Mansfield	866 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lacerta Group, LLC - 360 Forbes Blvd.	Mansfield	689 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lacerta Group, LLC - 50 Suffolk Rd.	Mansfield	689 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lacerta Group, LLC - 11 Norfolk Rd.	Mansfield	689 FTE
NAT-TCR	Insulfoam - Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. Vinland	Neenah, WI	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	591 - Snohomish-Int Branch	Snohomish, WA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Key People Company	Lakewood, CO	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	St Louis ARTCO Lineboats	St. Louis, MO	548 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Health Force	Cheektowaga, NY	548 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Continental Morganton	Morganton, NC	548 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Palmetto Corp	Conway, SC	548 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.