Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Cardinal Health

Houston, TX · ~225 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Health: 7.1 TCR = 323% of Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health safety composite

Cardinal Health scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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: 6.6 → 224.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 224.7 TCR · DART/TCR 21.07× in 2023

Cardinal Health's TCR rose 218.1 from 6.6 in 2017 to 224.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 21.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 323% of ind

  • DART 149.8 DART
  • RANK #52/58
  • PHOTO 3495-11DG065
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3495-11DG065 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health averages 7.1 TCR (323% of the Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Health TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=7.6 · 2023=224.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health falls in its industry

754 Diagnostic equipment, medical, establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 58 Diagnostic equipment, medical, employers in Texas.

Cardinal Health (225 employees, TCR 7.1) 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
Cardinal Health (225 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cardinal Health has more employees than the Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant median and a higher 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 224.7 149.8 3 0 0
2018 7.6 6.1 20 0 0
2017 6.6 4.9 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · TX · Houston

754 Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 3495-11DG065 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-11DA911 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DePuy Synthes Sales Organization 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 21175 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Drilling Inc. 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrisburg Service Center CP51 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7421-Ineos Chocolate Bayou 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE C1635 - Lyondellbasell - Potba 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Quikrete - Slc 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillandale Gettysburg, LP 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Elem School 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gehman Feed Mill 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkview Behavioral Health 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Business Furniture, LLC 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100020 225 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, 2018, 2017. 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.