Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing · Missouri

BD St. Louis

Name: BD St. Louis Workplace Safety Data
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Saint Louis, MO · ~150 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BD St. Louis runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BD St. Louis: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BD St. Louis safety composite

BD St. Louis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2020→2023

BD St. Louis injury rate improved

BD St. Louis's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.1 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.1 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Saint Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #1/9
PHOTO Teleflex / Essential…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teleflex / Essential Medical, Exton (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows BD St. Louis averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

BD St. Louis TCR series: 2020=3.1 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where BD St. Louis falls in its industry

741 Surgical knife blades and hand establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Surgical knife blades and hand employers in Missouri.

BD St. Louis (150 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

BD St. Louis has fewer employees than the Surgical knife blades and handles manufa 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
2023	2.1	2.1	3	0
2022	0.7	0.7	1	0
2021	0.7	0.7	1	0
2020	3.1	3.1	2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · MO · Saint Louis

741 Surgical knife blades and handles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 448 employers in Saint Louis, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Teleflex / Essential Medical, Exton	EXTON, PA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Penumbra, Inc. - Salt Lake City	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DAC International	CARPINTERIA, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2967-IL150	WAUKEGAN, IL	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	KCP&L - Hawthorn Generating Facility	KANSAS CITY	150 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Global Earthwork and Underground	KANSAS CITY	150 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BAM Contracting, LLC	FENTON	150 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Thomas Industrial Coatings & Thomas Equipment & Management	PEVELY	150 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MO002	Saint Louis	12,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Barnes-Jewish Hospital	Saint Louis	9,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS	Saint Louis	5,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Checkerboard Square	Saint Louis	3,464 FTE
NAT-TCR	Inlet Energy- Anchorage Warehouse	Anchorage, AK	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Grey's Anatomy Production	Los Angeles, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	David Peri Family Farms	Yerington, NV	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #5300 Germantown, MD	Germantown, MD	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Farming Technology Incorporated	Houston, TX	150 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Providence Ri	East Providence, RI	150 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carrier Vibrating Equipment Inc.	Louisville, KY	150 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - DBL8	New Haven, CT	150 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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