Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Waters- Milford

Milford, MA · ~2,393 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waters- Milford runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Waters- Milford: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waters- Milford safety composite

Waters- Milford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.22 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%).

Waters- Milford held a steady TCR band

Waters- Milford's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2021 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334516 · Milford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #6/33
  • PHOTO FEI Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~2,393 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FEI Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waters- Milford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waters- Milford averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waters- Milford TCR series: 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Waters- Milford falls in its industry

213 Chromatographic instruments, l establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 33 Chromatographic instruments, l employers in Massachusetts.

Waters- Milford (2,393 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Waters- Milford
Waters- Milford (2,393 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Waters- Milford has more employees than the Chromatographic instruments, laboratory- median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 0.3 0.2 6 0 0
2023 0.4 0.4 9 1 0
2022 0.6 0.4 14 2 0
2021 0.4 0.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334516 · MA · Milford

213 Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 71 employers in Milford, 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 FEI Company 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rigaku Americas Holding 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympus Waltham-Newton 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Kendall (Miami) 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waters Corporation Milford, MA and Field 2,379 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Hospital/Member of BILH 2,366 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon_Tewksbury_MA 2,348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon - Marlborough 2,332 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRMC 1,824 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consigli Construction Company, Inc. 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DBO3 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beacon - MA 524 FTE
NAT-TCR Kerry Hot Springs 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sgd Enterprises 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi TX 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Bernardino, CA - Santa Fe 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SLC1 2,393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP1 2,394 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 88 2,394 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Medical Center South 2,392 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.