Medical equipment merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Cardinal Health Durham DC

Durham, NC · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health Durham DC runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Medical equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal Health Durham DC: 1.8 TCR = 81% of Medical equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health Durham DC safety composite

Cardinal Health Durham DC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Cardinal Health Durham DC: 1.4 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2023

Cardinal Health Durham DC's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.4 in 2021 to 4.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #8/19
  • PHOTO Owens & Minor Cincin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens & Minor Cincinnati (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health Durham DC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health Durham DC averages 1.8 TCR (81% of the Medical equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Health Durham DC TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health Durham DC falls in its industry

754 Medical equipment merchant who establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 19 Medical equipment merchant who employers in North Carolina.

Cardinal Health Durham DC (60 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal Health Durham DC
Cardinal Health Durham DC (60 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cardinal Health Durham DC has more employees than the Medical equipment merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · NC · Durham

754 Medical equipment merchant wholesalers 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 Owens & Minor Cincinnati 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Byram Somerset 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0B60 - SAN DIEGO FAS 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patterson Logistics Services 7 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skaale Energy Control Center 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winston Salem Resource Center - PNG 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipeline Utilities Inc. 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gates Construction Company, Inc. 60 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 Community Action Partnership of Orange County 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Cleveland 17700 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Polymer Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Monogram Gourmet Foods, LLC - 330 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Honorable George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Division 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doubletree by Hilton Orlando Downtown 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main office 60 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. 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.