Laboratory testing services, medical (except radiological, X-ray) · California

Illumina-Redwood City

Redwood City, CA · ~131 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Illumina-Redwood City runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Laboratory testing services, medical (except radiological, X-ray) workplace, earning a grade B.

Illumina-Redwood City: 2.5 TCR = 66% of Laboratory testing services, medical (except radiological, X-ray) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Illumina-Redwood City safety composite

Illumina-Redwood City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.2

2017→2018

Illumina-Redwood City injury rate improved

Illumina-Redwood City's TCR fell 3.2 from 4.1 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621511 · Redwood City, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #8/22
  • PHOTO Millennium Health
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Millennium Health (0.1 TCR gap)

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Illumina-Redwood City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Illumina-Redwood City averages 2.5 TCR (66% of the Laboratory testing services, medical (except radiological, X-ray) BLS benchmark).

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

Illumina-Redwood City TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Illumina-Redwood City falls in its industry

162 Laboratory testing services, m establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 22 Laboratory testing services, m employers in California.

Illumina-Redwood City (131 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Illumina-Redwood City
Illumina-Redwood City (131 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Illumina-Redwood City has fewer employees than the Laboratory testing services, medical (ex median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 0.9 0.9 0 1 0
2017 4.1 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621511 · CA · Redwood City

162 Laboratory testing services, medical (except radiological, X-ray) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Redwood City, CA · 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 Millennium Health 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaleida Health Flint Rd. Laboratories 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laboratory Services Bldg 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inova Central Lab 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Babe Blosser Ranch 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dave Wilson Nursery 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Flora Corp 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Land FLC 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 141 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guardant Health 1,513 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120851 1,471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620851 1,382 FTE
NAT-TCR Vail Area 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New England Home Therapies, Inc. - 1000 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Snow Metal 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tremron - JAXP 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evergreen (Castleberry) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka (Kstop) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Center (Nchik) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moonachie (Njmoo) 131 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: 2018, 2017. 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.