TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.5 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Massachusetts workplace safety
How 10,108 OSHA-reporting employers across Massachusetts compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 8,820 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 10,108
- Employers
- 5.5
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 190,600
- Injuries (all)
- 86
- Fatalities (all)
Massachusetts vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
10,108 18th of 54 higher than 36 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Massachusetts's 8,820 rated reporting employers average 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.5
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 8,820
- rated employers
- 10,108
- all reporting employers
- 190,600
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 10,108 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 15% B · 11% C · 28% D · 21% F · 24%
24% of Massachusetts's reporting establishments earn an F and 15% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Massachusetts ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMassachusetts's average TCR of 5.5 is lower than 30% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Massachusetts is #38 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 8,820-employer subset), it's #8 of 54, a 30-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Massachusetts Workplaces Compare
Massachusetts hosts 10,108 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Massachusetts cohort, workers have logged 190,600 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 8,820 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 86 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Massachusetts, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Massachusetts, by injury rate
Page 163 of 202| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaleido Biosciences, Inc | Lexington | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.9 |
| Smith Nephew | Mansfield | Surgical knife blades and ha | A | 0.9 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific - Chelmsford | Chelmsford | Acidity (i.e., pH) measuring | A | 0.9 |
| MIN Westwood MA | Franklin | Industrial Supplies Merchant | A | 0.9 |
| Wylie Inn & Conference Center | Beverly | Agencies, real estate escrow | B | 0.9 |
| 5472-000000163 | Cambridge | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 0.9 |
| Philips NAM Field Sales & Service | Andover | Diagnostic imaging equipment | A | 0.9 |
| UG2 - 255 - Tishman - 1 Federal Street | Boston | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.9 |
| M&H Engineering Co., Inc. | Danvers | Machine shops | A | 0.9 |
| Materion - Westford 1 Lyberty | Westford | Optical Instrument and Lens | A | 0.9 |
| F.W. Madigan Company, Inc | Worcester | Office building construction | A | 0.9 |
| JEOL USA Inc. | Peabody | Optical instrument repair an | A | 0.9 |
| South Shore Medical Center - 141 Longwater | Norwell | MDs' (medical doctors), ment | A | 0.9 |
| Sunrise SESA Technologies Inc | Pembroke | Highway, street and bridge l | A | 0.9 |
| Babson-Rooms* | Babson Park | - | A | 0.9 |
| US - Branch Network : 0088 | Norwood | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | A | 0.9 |
| White Equipment Leasing Company | Stoughton | Construction machinery and e | A | 0.9 |
| 63201 Sunrise of Burlington Ma | Burlington | Nursing Care Facilities | A | 0.9 |
| Gourmet Specialty Foods, LLC | North Andover | Meats (except poultry), cure | A | 0.9 |
| BlueTriton Framingham Factory | Framingham | Beverages, naturally carbona | A | 0.9 |
| Cashman Equipment Corp | Braintree | Barge rental or leasing | B | 0.9 |
| Comfort Home Care, LLC. | Methuen | Home health care agencies | A | 0.9 |
| McDonald Electrical Corp | Hingham | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.9 |
| Marmaxx (WC USX MAX) | Marlborough | Motor freight carrier, gener | A | 0.9 |
| MKS Shattuck Rd | Andover | - | A | 0.8 |
| Walpole Site | East Walpole | Medical Diagnostics | A | 0.8 |
| CRISPR Therapeutics 33 New York Ave | Framingham | Gene therapy preparations ma | A | 0.8 |
| Boscw9621 Bos - Whs Bldg 62 | Boston | Other Airport Operations | A | 0.8 |
| United East Mansfield | Mansfield | Cooking equipment, commercia | A | 0.8 |
| SRS Petroleum Services LLC | West Bridgewater | Gas line installation, indiv | A | 0.8 |
| Allen Medical Systems, Inc. | Acton | Surgical supplies (except me | A | 0.8 |
| 15962 | Plymouth | - | D | 0.8 |
| Stoughton | Stoughton | 621420 Outpatient Mental Hea | A | 0.8 |
| DGI Communications, LLC | Billerica | Audio equipment installation | A | 0.8 |
| Baker Hughes | Billerica | Instruments for industrial p | A | 0.8 |
| IXYS Integrated Circuits Division, LLC | Beverly | Semiconductor devices manufa | A | 0.8 |
| Trillium Valves USA | Ipswich | Valves, industrial-type (e.g | A | 0.8 |
| DL Woburn | Woburn | In-vitro diagnostic substanc | A | 0.8 |
| USA East Boston 15 Transportation | East Boston | - | B | 0.8 |
| Quality Printing Company | Pittsfield | Offset printing (except book | A | 0.8 |
| Vje Ma | Chelmsford | Lamps, X-ray, manufacturing | A | 0.8 |
| Sika Canton 225 | Canton | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.8 |
| Lazaro Paving Corp. | Shirley | Asphalt paving (i.e., highwa | A | 0.8 |
| Vicarious Surgical Inc. | Waltham | Orthopedic devices manufactu | A | 0.8 |
| Sodexo at Umass Bostonfood Court | Dorchester | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.8 |
| Watson-Marlow Inc. | Wilmington | Pumps (except fluid power), | A | 0.8 |
| 6140-61400229 | Quincy | All Other General Merchandis | A | 0.8 |
| Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center | Southbridge | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.8 |
| Boston Sales/Showroom | Boston | Furniture (except drafting t | A | 0.8 |
| Superior Communication Services | Framingham | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.8 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Massachusetts: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.5 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (10,108 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.