Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Cardinal Health Memphis TN

Memphis, TN · ~127 workers · 2 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 Memphis TN runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Health Memphis TN: 7.1 TCR = 321% of Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health Memphis TN safety composite

Cardinal Health Memphis TN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2016→2017

Cardinal Health Memphis TN injury rate improved

Cardinal Health Memphis TN's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.6 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 321% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO 3495-10D8155
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3495-10D8155 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health Memphis TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health Memphis TN averages 7.1 TCR (321% 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 Memphis TN TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=5.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health Memphis TN falls in its industry

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole employers in Tennessee.

Cardinal Health Memphis TN (127 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 Memphis TN
Cardinal Health Memphis TN (127 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health Memphis TN has more employees than the Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2017 5.6 5.6 8 0 0
2016 8.6 5.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · TN · Memphis

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 3495-10D8155 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10D8155 PHARMA TRI STATES 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4016-10634000 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4016-10284000 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dixie Roofing, Inc. - LaFollette 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE 001 Memphis TN Barnhart Plant Services LLC 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honest Abe Log Homes, Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murfreesboro Container 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Newburgh (Nymon) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Landover (Mdlan) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GDIT Chula Vista Design Ct 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IND - Airport United Airlines Offices 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Appolo Heating 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lufkin (Txluf) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington (Pawas) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greensboro (Ncgsb) 127 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.