Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing · Connecticut

BD Canaan

Canaan, CT · ~434 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BD Canaan runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BD Canaan: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BD Canaan safety composite

BD Canaan scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

BD Canaan: 1.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2019

BD Canaan's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Canaan, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Mark Anderson & Asso…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~434 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mark Anderson & Associates, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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BD Canaan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BD Canaan averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BD Canaan TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where BD Canaan falls in its industry

741 Needles, hypodermic and suture establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Needles, hypodermic and suture employers in Connecticut.

BD Canaan (434 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 BD Canaan
BD Canaan (434 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

BD Canaan has more employees than the Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufact median and a higher 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
2019 2.1 1.7 11 0 0
2018 1.8 1.3 9 1 0
2017 1.0 0.8 5 0 0
2016 1.6 0.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · CT · Canaan

741 Needles, hypodermic and suture, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 9 employers in Canaan, CT · 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 Mark Anderson & Associates, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vapotherm 100 Domain Drive 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICU Medical Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Wire Technologies 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TheKey - CT, Glastonbury (100 Western Blvd.) 434 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4186-DC10 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hebrew Center for Health and Rehabilitation 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Renewal Team 431 FTE
CITY-NEAR Becton Dickinson - Canaan 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geer Woods, Inc 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Rapids CSG 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Torre 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Accent Millwork & Supply, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Littelfuse 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transformers Division 434 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Harrisburg West 045 434 FTE
NAT-SIZE SkyPark 434 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mascoutah CUSD #19 434 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: 2019, 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.