Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing · Illinois

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D

Round Lake, IL · ~975 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D safety composite

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D held a steady TCR band

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Round Lake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/30
  • PHOTO Becton Dickinson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~975 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Becton Dickinson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baxter/ Round Lake R & D in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baxter/ Round Lake R & D averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Baxter/ Round Lake R & D falls in its industry

741 Instruments, mechanical micros establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 30 Instruments, mechanical micros employers in Illinois.

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D (975 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Baxter/ Round Lake R & D
Baxter/ Round Lake R & D (975 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Baxter/ Round Lake R & D has more employees than the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · IL · Round Lake

741 Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Round Lake, IL · 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 Becton Dickinson 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inogen, Inc. 4 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ETHICON, LLC 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Scientific Minnetonka 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Granite City Works 976 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carson's Edens Plaza 977 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCH3 973 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake R&D 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake, IL -Nationwide Sales Personnel 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter Healthcare - Round Lake Drug Delivery 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Takeda Pharmaceuticals 534 FTE
NAT-TCR 105285 - Champlain Hudson Power Express-Transmiss 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Maverick Center 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nal Technical Center 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR National Education Loan Network Ins 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redmond School District 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE Case Farms Morganton Processing Plant 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Escondido 975 FTE
NAT-SIZE AIRES, LLC-all 975 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.