Blood glucose test kits manufacturing · Illinois

Flex - Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~1,217 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex - Buffalo Grove runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blood glucose test kits manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Flex - Buffalo Grove: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Blood glucose test kits manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex - Buffalo Grove safety composite

Flex - Buffalo Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−0.8

2021→2024

Flex - Buffalo Grove injury rate improved

Flex - Buffalo Grove's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.1 in 2021 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.1 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO ARDx Pomona
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~1,217 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARDx Pomona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex - Buffalo Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex - Buffalo Grove averages 1.5 TCR (44% 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 TCR series: 2021=2.1 · 2022=2 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Flex - Buffalo Grove falls in its industry

201 Blood glucose test kits manufa establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #3 safest of 9 Blood glucose test kits manufa employers in Illinois.

Flex - Buffalo Grove (1,217 employees, TCR 1.5) 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
Flex - Buffalo Grove (1,217 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Flex - Buffalo Grove 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
2024 1.2 1.0 14 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 7 0 0
2022 2.0 1.9 24 0 0
2021 2.1 1.6 23 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 ARDx Pomona 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 124 Bernard East Saint Jean 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OraSure Technologies Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Bioscience Inc - Life Science 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Office of Field Operations - Chicago 1,219 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center 1,221 FTE
STATE-SIZE County Of Kane 1,212 FTE
STATE-SIZE INGALLS HEALTH SYSTEMS 1,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plexus Corp 556 FTE
NAT-TCR Hunter Museum of American Art 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Casper Colosimo & Son, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Western States Fire Protection 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayward Phoenix 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - MCO 1,217 FTE
NAT-SIZE 410-DC001 1,217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifespan Corporation 1,218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Distribution 1,218 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, 2021. 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.