Microbiology instruments manufacturing · North Carolina

BioMerieux, INC

Durham, NC · ~670 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BioMerieux, INC runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Microbiology instruments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BioMerieux, INC: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Microbiology instruments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BioMerieux, INC safety composite

BioMerieux, INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.5

2020→2024

BioMerieux, INC injury rate improved

BioMerieux, INC's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.3 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334516 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO PacBio Menlo Park
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~670 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PacBio Menlo Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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BioMerieux, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BioMerieux, INC averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Microbiology instruments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BioMerieux, INC TCR series: 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where BioMerieux, INC falls in its industry

213 Microbiology instruments manuf establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Microbiology instruments manuf employers in North Carolina.

BioMerieux, INC (670 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BioMerieux, INC
BioMerieux, INC (670 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2

BioMerieux, INC has more employees than the Microbiology instruments manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 0.8 0.4 4 0 0
2023 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2022 0.3 0.1 2 0 0
2021 1.4 1.0 7 0 0
2020 1.3 1.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334516 · NC · Durham

213 Microbiology instruments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 PacBio Menlo Park 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moxtek 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sydor Technologies 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TA Instruments- Eden Prairie 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC 671 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyster-Yale Group, Inc., Greenville Manufacturing Plant 671 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Woodmark Corporation 671 FTE
STATE-SIZE 361393-CHARLOTTE NC P&DC 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR PurAqua Products Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Butter Buds Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglass Pile Company, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Minnesota Services, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch Civil, Inc. 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilderness Hotel & Resort Inc 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cepheid Lodi 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE YMCA of Memphis - ASC - Metro 670 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.