Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO

Kansas City, MO · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO: 2.1 TCR = 98% of Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO safety composite

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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 Kansas City, MO: 1.7 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2019

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.7 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO Priority Healthcare …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc. Grove City OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO averages 2.1 TCR (98% of the Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO falls in its industry

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole employers in Missouri.

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO (126 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO
Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO (126 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health Kansas City, MO has more employees than the Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2016 1.7 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · MO · Kansas City

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, 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 Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc. Grove City OH 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8321 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lil' Drug Store Products 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cosmax USA 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ITC Kansas 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Brands LLC 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golding Farms Foods - St. Louis 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR Mechanical Contractors 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valassis, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulk Express 25001 Hammond 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AAM Casting | Wauwatosa Manufacturing Facility 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Creative Wood Products Inc. 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plumbmaster.inc 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-American Machine & Equipment, Inc. 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAX-JACKSONVILLE 126 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.