Gene therapy preparations manufacturing · Texas

Lonza Houston

Houston, TX · ~922 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lonza Houston runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gene therapy preparations manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lonza Houston: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Gene therapy preparations manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lonza Houston safety composite

Lonza Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Lonza Houston: 0.0 → 0.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Lonza Houston's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Miltenyi Biotec - Ga…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~922 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miltenyi Biotec - Gaithersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lonza Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lonza Houston averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Gene therapy preparations manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lonza Houston TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lonza Houston falls in its industry

234 Gene therapy preparations manu establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Gene therapy preparations manu employers in Texas.

Lonza Houston (922 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Lonza Houston
Lonza Houston (922 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Lonza Houston has more employees than the Gene therapy preparations 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
2024 0.4 0.3 4 0 0
2023 0.8 0.6 8 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · TX · Houston

234 Gene therapy preparations manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 - Gaithersburg 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Instil Bio INC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KBI Biopharma - Woodlands 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shire: 125 Spring Street 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar Bayou 922 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-TXAUS54 922 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - McKinney 922 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plains Marketing 921 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Rogers Waiver 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Adrian ElementarySchool 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MTC Holsters 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1200 Washington-Minneapolis 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FL180 Palatka Paper 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMS Group Inc 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murray Company 922 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group 922 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. 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.