Blood donor stations · Minnesota

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth

Duluth, MN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood donor stations workplace, earning a grade D.

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth: 5.0 TCR = 131% of Blood donor stations BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth safety composite

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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)
D 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth: 0.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth's TCR rose 10.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/30
  • PHOTO HCSC-Blood Center t/…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HCSC-Blood Center t/a Miller-Keystone Blood Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth averages 5.0 TCR (131% of the Blood donor stations BLS benchmark).

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

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10 · BLS 3.8

Where Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth falls in its industry

1,713 Blood donor stations establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 30 Blood donor stations employers in Minnesota.

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth (48 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth
Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth (48 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Innovative Blood Resources - Duluth has more employees than the Blood donor stations 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
2024 10.0 0.0 2 2 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · MN · Duluth

1,713 Blood donor stations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, MN · 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 HCSC-Blood Center t/a Miller-Keystone Blood Center 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wichita Falls-9th, TX - Biomat 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitalant CO Denver 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VARICH-OPI-RICHMOND-HULL 527 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waukon 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swenoda 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Region Cooperative - SE Agronomy East/BCA/Shop 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Hendricks Power Cooperative 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Randall Bearings, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Manor Assisted Living Community Vinton 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Hills at Cedar Rapids 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Serra Medical Transportation Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Optical Supply Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Charles Crystalworks Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blough, Inc 48 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. 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.