Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers · California

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma

Valencia, CA · ~203 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma: 3.6 TCR = 164% of Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma safety composite

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 - VLN Pharma: 2.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2022

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.6 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Valencia, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #19/45
  • PHOTO Cardinal Health - PD…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cardinal Health - PD - Salt Lake City, UT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma averages 3.6 TCR (164% 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 - VLN Pharma TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma falls in its industry

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 45 Pharmaceuticals merchant whole employers in California.

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma (203 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 - VLN Pharma
Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma (203 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health - VLN Pharma 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
2022 3.5 3.5 3 3 0
2021 3.5 3.5 6 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 9 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · CA · Valencia

514 Pharmaceuticals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 186 employers in Valencia, CA · 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 Cardinal Health - PD - Salt Lake City, UT 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanford FL1 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health Edison NJ 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE George Chiala Farms - Morgan Hill 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Cumbre Ag Labor, Inc 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corazon Del Campo- Capay Farm 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Wildomar Service Center 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 62 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital 1,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific Neuromodulation 1,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward HRT Santa Clarita 726 FTE
NAT-TCR Market Place #520 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crazy Fish Int'l Fort Lauderdale 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GNS North America 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly #273 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Fuel Company 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati (formerly Ampac Plastics LLC) 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #505 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE IN182 Richmond (Industries Road) Container 203 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.