Blood glucose test kits manufacturing · Illinois

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~798 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blood glucose test kits manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Blood glucose test kits manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building safety composite

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.57 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2019→2020

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building injury rate improved

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.5 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325413 · Buffalo Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO HDx-CA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~798 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HDx-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Blood glucose test kits manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building falls in its industry

201 Blood glucose test kits manufa establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Blood glucose test kits manufa employers in Illinois.

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building (798 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 02,0004,0006,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building
Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building (798 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building has more employees than the Blood glucose test kits manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.9 1.6 19 0 0
2019 3.5 2.5 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325413 · IL · Buffalo Grove

201 Blood glucose test kits manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 HDx-CA 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA facility 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diasorin Molecular 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bio-Rad Laboratories - Irvine 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Express - Streamwood 798 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORD UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-ORD 799 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plexus Corp 556 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Steel Inc 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxwell Pointe Practices 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MO KirkJami 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR J.J. Curran Crane Company 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Din1 798 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plexus Boise 798 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angel Brothers Enterprises, LTD. 798 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabuwood Cabinetry Corp. 798 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.