Culture media manufacturing · Maryland

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center

Frederick, MD · ~775 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center safety composite

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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)
A 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.5× in 2024

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Frederick, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Resilience Inc, Durh…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~775 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Resilience Inc, Durham NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center falls in its industry

234 Culture media manufacturing establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Culture media manufacturing employers in Maryland.

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center (775 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center
AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center (775 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center has more employees than the Culture media manufacturing 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 1.3 1.3 10 0 0
2023 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · MD · Frederick

234 Culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 267 employers in Frederick, MD · 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 Resilience Inc, Durham NC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brammer Bio Plainville 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miltenyi Biotec - Auburn 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Repligen Corporation 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holy Cross Germantown Hospital-HCH-MD 775 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC) 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Building Services Inc 772 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6000 GREENBELT RAIL FACILITY 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR MD-03 4,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick, MD (BID - Executive Way) 568 FTE
CITY-NEAR 978 Fre1000 558 FTE
NAT-TCR The Woodlands 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips 66 Hartford Lubricants Plant 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Leprino Foods 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AssetWatch, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Freeport McMoRan Inc. 775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Princeton 775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Sinton 775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homes for Independent Living 775 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.