Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · Indiana

Cook Biotech Inc

West Lafayette, IN · ~203 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook Biotech Inc runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cook Biotech Inc: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook Biotech Inc safety composite

Cook Biotech Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Cook Biotech Inc: 2.3 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Cook Biotech Inc's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.3 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · West Lafayette, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO Adam Spence
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adam Spence (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cook Biotech Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook Biotech Inc averages 3.1 TCR (93% 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

Cook Biotech Inc TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cook Biotech Inc falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 26 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in Indiana.

Cook Biotech Inc (203 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Cook Biotech Inc
Cook Biotech Inc (203 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Cook Biotech Inc has more employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a higher 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
2024 3.8 0.6 7 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · IN · West Lafayette

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 46 employers in West Lafayette, IN · 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 Adam Spence 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spyder Manufacturing, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integra York 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASO LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GEMCO Constructors LLC 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danzer Veneer Americas 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN012 Richmond (G Street) Container 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN182 Richmond (Industries Road) Container 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2339 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc. 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2339 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Purdue Research Foundation 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Uvalde Tx - 823 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 503 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Loch Raven 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowe Contractors Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 208 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Medical 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Express, Inc. 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Byram MS 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: 2024, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.