Plasmapheresis Center · Illinois

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife

Harwood Heights, IL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plasmapheresis Center workplace, earning a grade F.

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife: 8.4 TCR = 222% of Plasmapheresis Center BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife safety composite

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife: 0.0 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2021

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife's TCR rose 16.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 16.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Harwood Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 222% of ind

  • DART 12.7 DART
  • RANK #59/69
  • PHOTO IMPACTLIFE - Ottumwa
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IMPACTLIFE - Ottumwa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife averages 8.4 TCR (222% of the Plasmapheresis Center BLS benchmark).

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

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=16.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife falls in its industry

1,713 Plasmapheresis Center establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 69 Plasmapheresis Center employers in Illinois.

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife (24 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife
Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife (24 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Harwood Heights, IL-BioLife has fewer employees than the Plasmapheresis Center median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 16.9 12.7 3 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · IL · Harwood Heights

1,713 Plasmapheresis Center employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in Harwood Heights, 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 IMPACTLIFE - Ottumwa 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Blood Services-Midland 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lufkin-John, TX - Biomat 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIKEN-OPI-KENOSHA 118 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCL Graphics, Inc. 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR 531-00510 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Screw Products, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 746 HARWOOD HEIGHTS, IL 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Brightwater Retirement, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Utica Ambulance Service 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Oxford, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McCullough Division 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Energy Oregon 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westfield Distributing of ND, Inc. (Horace) 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cobalt Refrigeration Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Materials Division 24 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: 2021, 2020. 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.