Surgical Appliance and Supplies · Georgia

Ethicon Cornelia

Cornelia, GA · ~699 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ethicon Cornelia runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Surgical Appliance and Supplies workplace, earning a grade B.

Ethicon Cornelia: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Surgical Appliance and Supplies BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ethicon Cornelia safety composite

Ethicon Cornelia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2024

Ethicon Cornelia injury rate improved

Ethicon Cornelia's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Cornelia, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #9/19
  • PHOTO Medtronic Menlo Park
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~699 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medtronic Menlo Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ethicon Cornelia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ethicon Cornelia averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Surgical Appliance and Supplies BLS benchmark).

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

Ethicon Cornelia TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ethicon Cornelia falls in its industry

555 Surgical Appliance and Supplie establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 19 Surgical Appliance and Supplie employers in Georgia.

Ethicon Cornelia (699 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Ethicon Cornelia
Ethicon Cornelia (699 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Ethicon Cornelia has more employees than the Surgical Appliance and Supplies 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
2024 1.2 0.4 12 0 0
2023 1.8 0.9 15 2 0
2022 1.3 0.3 11 1 0
2018 2.0 1.3 10 4 0
2017 2.1 0.9 12 2 0
2016 2.1 1.4 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · GA · Cornelia

555 Surgical Appliance and Supplies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 26 employers in Cornelia, GA · 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 Medtronic Menlo Park 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spinal Elements - Marietta 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parter Medical Products, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant 72 699 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brent Scarbrough & Company 700 FTE
STATE-SIZE KGPCo Services, LLC dba Circet USA - Kennesaw 700 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPSG Global 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Plant 1,574 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornelia Plant 1,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1403 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1403 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Oak Crest Elementary 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Graves Gilbert Clinic -FCC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McClone Construction Colorado 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ametrine, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Eye Ear Nose and Throat Associates, P.A. 699 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 700 Spring Garden St 699 FTE
NAT-SIZE B50 699 FTE
NAT-SIZE 253 Aut - Greensboro 699 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.