Hypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing · Nebraska

BD Pharmaceutical Systems

Columbus, NE · ~971 workers · 2 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

BD Pharmaceutical Systems runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BD Pharmaceutical Systems: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Hypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BD Pharmaceutical Systems safety composite

BD Pharmaceutical Systems scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

BD Pharmaceutical Systems held a steady TCR band

BD Pharmaceutical Systems's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.3 in 2021 to 0.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.3 · 2022=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Columbus, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO NM Plano TX
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~971 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NM Plano TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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BD Pharmaceutical Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BD Pharmaceutical Systems averages 0.3 TCR (10% of the Hypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BD Pharmaceutical Systems TCR series: 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where BD Pharmaceutical Systems falls in its industry

741 Hypodermic needles and syringe establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Hypodermic needles and syringe employers in Nebraska.

BD Pharmaceutical Systems (971 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 Pharmaceutical Systems
BD Pharmaceutical Systems (971 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

BD Pharmaceutical Systems has more employees than the Hypodermic needles and syringes manufact 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
2022 0.3 0.3 4 0 0
2021 0.3 0.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · NE · Columbus

741 Hypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 91 employers in Columbus, NE · 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 NM Plano TX 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lungpacer Medical USA Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuVasive, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philips Spectranetics 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHI Health Saint Elizabeth 965 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Premium Poultry 954 FTE
STATE-SIZE nebraska beef 992 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kiewit Corporation_3555 Farnam Street 994 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus West 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Community Hospital 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus East 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Behlen Mfg. Co. 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Thompson Industrial Services Division 53 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TSV Augusta - RPM 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Toppan Photomasks, Inc Corporate Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jabil Circuit 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1855-FLJAC5 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marz Farms Inc. 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE ClearPath Workforce Managment 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilmar Cheese Company INC. 971 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: 2022, 2021. 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.