Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · Illinois

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC

Barrington, IL · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC safety composite

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC held a steady TCR band

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Barrington, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #13/22
  • PHOTO SSP-SiMatrix, Inc. -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSP-SiMatrix, Inc. - Hamilton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 22 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in Illinois.

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC (58 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC
Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC (58 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC has fewer employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2020 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2016 3.3 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · IL · Barrington

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 28 employers in Barrington, IL · 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 SSP-SiMatrix, Inc. - Hamilton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avon Protection Systems - Belcamp Office 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medline Industries - Dynacor - DYN 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix 3 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital 1,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Shepherd 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR QTG Development Inc. 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swiss Automation, Inc. - Barrington 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercedes Benz of Lancaster 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer#129 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Triangle Services - New York City Janitorial Route 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Graffiti Shield, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Toro Store 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burton Signworks, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Jails #1, #2 & #9 58 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.