Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services · Maryland

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center

Aberdeen, MD · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade C.

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center safety composite

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center held a steady TCR band

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541711 · Aberdeen, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/6
  • PHOTO GSK/ViiV- Durham
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GSK/ViiV- Durham (0.1 TCR gap)

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Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center falls in its industry

189 Biotechnology research and dev establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 6 Biotechnology research and dev employers in Maryland.

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center (94 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center
Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center (94 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Battelle Eastern Science & Technology (BEST) Center has fewer employees than the Biotechnology research and development l median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541711 · MD · Aberdeen

189 Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 60 employers in Aberdeen, 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 GSK/ViiV- Durham 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Flavors and Fragrances 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermo Fisher Scientific 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRB Enterprises, LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miles Electric Co., Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert A. Tull, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowen & Kron Enterprises, Inc. 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MTN2 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABERDEEN LOCATION 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABERDEEN PLANT 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rite Aid Distribution 855 FTE
NAT-TCR TX-01 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NJ-05 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CT-02 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AZ-01 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Healthcare LLC 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atrium Post Acute Care of Wisconsin Rapids 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5107-00 Starbucks/Macedonia, OH 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Bosch Battery Systems, LLC 94 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, 2016. 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.