Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · Minnesota

Birchwood Laboratories LLC

Eden Prairie, MN · ~65 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birchwood Laboratories LLC runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Birchwood Laboratories LLC: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Laboratories LLC safety composite

Birchwood Laboratories LLC 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 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%).

Rising injury rate

Birchwood Laboratories LLC: 3.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Birchwood Laboratories LLC's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.1 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Eden Prairie, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Kent Sporting Goods
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kent Sporting Goods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birchwood Laboratories LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birchwood Laboratories LLC averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Birchwood Laboratories LLC TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=7 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Birchwood Laboratories LLC falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in Minnesota.

Birchwood Laboratories LLC (65 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Birchwood Laboratories LLC
Birchwood Laboratories LLC (65 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Birchwood Laboratories LLC has fewer employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.0 4.2 5 0 0
2020 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 8.9 7.4 6 0 0
2017 3.1 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · MN · Eden Prairie

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 242 employers in Eden Prairie, MN · 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 Kent Sporting Goods 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GCX Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR college park industries warren 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DePuy Synthes Monument 1051 Synthes 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Prairie 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hibbing Public Utilities 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Virginia Public Utilities 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Utility Services Inc-MN-Lakeville 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN101 1,940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN051 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota 1,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fortra, LLC 1,367 FTE
NAT-TCR Monmouth Rubber Corp. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingman 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Weatherford 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shop Rite of Somerset 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magnolia of Millbrae Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Farms of GA 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Process Fibre Company, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond 085 65 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.