Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, microscopes, natural science sets) manufacturing · North Carolina

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road

Burlington, NC · ~310 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, microscopes, natural science sets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, microscopes, natural science sets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road safety composite

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road: 0.9 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.9 in 2023 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339930 · Burlington, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Osment Models Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~310 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Osment Models Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, microscopes, natural science sets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road falls in its industry

32 Science kits (e.g., chemistry establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Science kits (e.g., chemistry employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road (310 employees, TCR 1.2) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 17 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road
Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road (310 employees, TCR 1.2) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carolina Biological Supply Company - York Road has more employees than the Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, micr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.5 0.6 3 2 0
2023 0.9 0.6 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339930 · NC · Burlington

32 Science kits (e.g., chemistry sets, microscopes, natural science sets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Burlington, NC · 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 Osment Models Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BACHMANN INDUSTRIES, INC. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Late for the Sky Production Co. Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Biological Supply Company - Rock Creek 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pilkington, NA 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE B33 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLT_UTILITY 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh Customer Service Center 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Road 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County 373 FTE
NAT-TCR Hive Labor, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-Cities 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Excel Mechanical Services, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ATLATLANTAGA 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE HoneywellLA04 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona DC12 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Expeditors International of WA. Inc. 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE MetroPower Inc BR 1 5 15 18 25 310 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.