Antibiotics merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Cardinal Health

Bedford, MA · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Antibiotics merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal Health: 2.3 TCR = 102% of Antibiotics merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health safety composite

Cardinal Health scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2018

Cardinal Health's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Bedford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Pfizer San Juan
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pfizer San Juan (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 2.3 TCR (102% of the Antibiotics 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: 2016=0 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health falls in its industry

514 Antibiotics merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Antibiotics merchant wholesale employers in Massachusetts.

Cardinal Health (84 employees, TCR 2.3) 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
Cardinal Health (84 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health has fewer employees than the Antibiotics 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
2018 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2017 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · MA · Bedford

514 Antibiotics merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 50 employers in Bedford, MA · 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 Pfizer San Juan 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health SLC PHARM 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health Med Jacksonville 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PR Medical Bldg 3 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mystic 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windover Construction 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE HWE Stoughton Insulation 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE James W. Flett Co., Inc 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Instrumentation Laboratory 1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford - 174 Middlesex Pkwy 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMD Millipore - 80 Ashby and 75 Wiggins 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR State Electric Corporation 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Avera Plaza 2 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TMS Jackson MS 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Linhart Construction, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Novel 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE GlenElston Nursing and Rehabilitation 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSA Elms at Tanglewood DBA Trinity Elm Assisted Living 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 14 84 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: 2018, 2017, 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.