Culture media manufacturing · North Carolina

KBI Biopharma - Durham

Durham, NC · ~372 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KBI Biopharma - Durham runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KBI Biopharma - Durham: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KBI Biopharma - Durham safety composite

KBI Biopharma - Durham scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−1.9

2016→2022

KBI Biopharma - Durham injury rate improved

KBI Biopharma - Durham's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.6 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO Miltenyi Biotec - Sa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miltenyi Biotec - San Diego (0.0 TCR gap)

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KBI Biopharma - Durham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KBI Biopharma - Durham averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KBI Biopharma - Durham TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where KBI Biopharma - Durham falls in its industry

234 Culture media manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Culture media manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

KBI Biopharma - Durham (372 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate KBI Biopharma - Durham
KBI Biopharma - Durham (372 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

KBI Biopharma - Durham has more employees than the Culture media manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2022 0.7 0.5 3 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 4 1 0
2020 0.5 0.3 2 0 0
2019 0.8 0.5 3 0 0
2018 1.3 0.3 4 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · NC · Durham

234 Culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 Miltenyi Biotec - San Diego 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Animal Health, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thousand Oaks Manufacturing 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novo Nordisk US Bio Production Inc. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mills River 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1097 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Charlotte_7820 Crescent Executive_TW140102 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakewood Elementary School 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FG Plant - Othello 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas City Site 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR iwis drive systems, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Behavioral Health 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE 414409-Lancaster Pa P&Dc 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neaton Rome Inc. 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-AL 372 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.