Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing · Missouri

bioMerieux St. Louis

Hazelwood, MO · ~871 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

bioMerieux St. Louis runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

bioMerieux St. Louis: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

bioMerieux St. Louis safety composite

bioMerieux St. Louis scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

bioMerieux St. Louis held a steady TCR band

bioMerieux St. Louis's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.5 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325413 · Hazelwood, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P87
  • PHOTO TECHLAB INC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~871 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TECHLAB INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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bioMerieux St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows bioMerieux St. Louis averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

bioMerieux St. Louis TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where bioMerieux St. Louis falls in its industry

201 Blood derivative in-vitro diag establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
bioMerieux St. Louis (871 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 02,0004,0006,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate bioMerieux St. Louis
bioMerieux St. Louis (871 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4

bioMerieux St. Louis has more employees than the Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic sub median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.8 0.5 8 0 0
2018 0.6 0.2 4 1 0
2017 0.6 0.2 5 0 0
2016 0.5 0.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325413 · MO · Hazelwood

201 Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 106 employers in Hazelwood, MO · 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 TECHLAB INC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Becton Dickinson Caribe LTD. Biosciences 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Scientific Ltd. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Immucor Warren 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE KraftHeinz Kirksville Plant 870 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amerifleet Transportation Inc. DBA ACERTUS 873 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tropicana StLouis-Lumiere 869 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollywood Casino St. Louis 874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : STL5 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLI1 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR bioMerieux Inc. 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - STL5 866 FTE
NAT-TCR Holian Insulation of Wisconsin, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HECC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #139 (Quincy, IL) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pampa Fuels LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : LAS6 871 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Drt1 871 FTE
NAT-SIZE County of Lake - California - General Gov 871 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Flooring Sales 871 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.