In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing · Maryland

Lonza Walkersville

Walkersville, MD · ~540 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lonza Walkersville runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lonza Walkersville: 1.1 TCR = 32% of In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lonza Walkersville safety composite

Lonza Walkersville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−0.6

2019→2024

Lonza Walkersville injury rate improved

Lonza Walkersville's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.0 in 2019 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.0 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325413 · Walkersville, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO 3471 Campus (Corpora…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~540 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3471 Campus (Corporate, MMF, Richards) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lonza Walkersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lonza Walkersville averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lonza Walkersville TCR series: 2019=1 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lonza Walkersville falls in its industry

201 In-vitro diagnostic substances establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 In-vitro diagnostic substances employers in Maryland.

Lonza Walkersville (540 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 02,0004,0006,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Lonza Walkersville
Lonza Walkersville (540 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Lonza Walkersville has more employees than the In-vitro diagnostic substances manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.4 2 1 0
2022 2.4 2.4 12 0 0
2021 0.9 0.6 5 1 0
2019 1.0 1.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325413 · MD · Walkersville

201 In-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 6 employers in Walkersville, MD · 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 3471 Campus (Corporate, MMF, Richards) 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roche Diagnostics Operations 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR QuidelOrtho Rutherford 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermo Fisher Scientific, Eugene, OR 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adventist Behavioral Health/Adventist Medical Group/Lourie Center 540 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDHUN - HUNT VALLEY 539 FTE
STATE-SIZE C47 538 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Woodmark Corporation - Allegany Plant 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miscellaneous Metals, Inc. 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0035-0035-00128 FAC-00128-WALKERSVILLE-MD 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0035-0035-00128 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-SWY 0035 0128 69 FTE
NAT-TCR CAES Systems LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Lake Beckville Lignite Mining 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson Piggly Wiggly 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cytiva US LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Macon County, NC 540 FTE
NAT-SIZE GOJO Industries, Inc. - Plaza 540 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pid, LLC 540 FTE
NAT-SIZE kdc/ one 540 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, 2021, 2019. 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.