Virus vaccines manufacturing · North Carolina

Merck Teknika Facility

Durham, NC · ~139 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merck Teknika Facility runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Virus vaccines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Merck Teknika Facility: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Virus vaccines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merck Teknika Facility safety composite

Merck Teknika Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Merck Teknika Facility held a steady TCR band

Merck Teknika Facility's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.7 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Spark Therapeutics, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spark Therapeutics, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merck Teknika Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merck Teknika Facility averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Virus vaccines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merck Teknika Facility TCR series: 2021=0.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Merck Teknika Facility falls in its industry

234 Virus vaccines manufacturing establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #10 safest of 16 Virus vaccines manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Merck Teknika Facility (139 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Merck Teknika Facility
Merck Teknika Facility (139 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Merck Teknika Facility has fewer employees than the Virus vaccines 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 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · NC · Durham

234 Virus vaccines 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 Spark Therapeutics, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoetis LLC. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Myers Squibb - Summit West Cell Therapy Manufacturing 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CELLECTIS BIOLOGICS INC. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bullington Construction, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Walls Inc-Greensboro 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Corp Ofc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Specialty Yarn Group, Inc. Valdese 139 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 Jonesboro Rice Mill 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monks Construction 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR O&R Blue Hill 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR J-Lok Corp 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erin 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAA 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCB, Inc. 139 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. 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.