In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing · California

ARDx San Diego Ameditech

San Diego, CA · ~187 workers · 2 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

ARDx San Diego Ameditech runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ARDx San Diego Ameditech: 0.4 TCR = 13% of In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ARDx San Diego Ameditech safety composite

ARDx San Diego Ameditech scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.46 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%).

ARDx San Diego Ameditech held a steady TCR band

ARDx San Diego Ameditech's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.4 · 2018=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325413 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #5/50
  • PHOTO Ortho Clinical Diagn…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics CNP 130 (0.0 TCR gap)

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ARDx San Diego Ameditech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ARDx San Diego Ameditech averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ARDx San Diego Ameditech TCR series: 2017=0.4 · 2018=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where ARDx San Diego Ameditech falls in its industry

201 In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 50 In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance employers in California.

ARDx San Diego Ameditech (187 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 02,0004,0006,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate ARDx San Diego Ameditech
ARDx San Diego Ameditech (187 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4

ARDx San Diego Ameditech has more employees than the In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325413 · CA · San Diego

201 In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 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 Ortho Clinical Diagnostics CNP 130 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR QuidelOrtho McKellar 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bio-Rad Laboratories-Plano 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ortho Clinical Diagnostics - Rochester Canal Ponds 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gourmet Specialties Inc - Warehouse 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE J & C Ag Services Inc 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miramar - Bld: 5315 - 01 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Ventura S/C 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR 9706 - Dfw - Csoc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Texoma 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TRW Vehicle Safety Systems-Wash02 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mountain Rose Herbs 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZ.TEMPE.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE GREENVILLE 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evansville (Ineva) 187 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. 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.