Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers · New York

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC

Syracuse, NY · ~240 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC: 5.8 TCR = 263% of Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC safety composite

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 Syracuse DC: 4.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.0 in 2021 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Syracuse, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 263% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #29/33
  • PHOTO Rite Aid Distriburtion
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rite Aid Distriburtion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health Syracuse DC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health Syracuse DC averages 5.8 TCR (263% 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 Syracuse DC TCR series: 2021=4 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health Syracuse DC falls in its industry

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 33 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole employers in New York.

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC (240 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Syracuse DC
Cardinal Health Syracuse DC (240 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health Syracuse DC 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
2024 5.2 5.2 13 0 0
2023 6.5 6.0 15 0 0
2022 7.5 7.0 16 0 0
2021 4.0 3.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · NY · Syracuse

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 436 employers in Syracuse, NY · 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 Rite Aid Distriburtion 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCG LLC dba Reserve 1 Manitou 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5321 - T21MFC-Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4016-10394000 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gorman Brothers Inc 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&S United Services, Inc. 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVFG 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treehouse Foods, INC 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health 4,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 3,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center-SJH-NY 2,803 FTE
NAT-TCR Commerce City 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mulberry St. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruland Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Webster'S Marketplace 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE FM3 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shadybrook 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodstone House 240 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: 2024, 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.