Agar culture media manufacturing · Maine

Northeast Laboratory Services

Waterville, ME · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northeast Laboratory Services runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Northeast Laboratory Services: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northeast Laboratory Services safety composite

Northeast Laboratory Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

2019→2021

Northeast Laboratory Services injury rate improved

Northeast Laboratory Services's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.7 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.7 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Waterville, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Elanco Winslow
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elanco Winslow (0.2 TCR gap)

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Northeast Laboratory Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northeast Laboratory Services averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Agar culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Northeast Laboratory Services TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Northeast Laboratory Services falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in Maine.

Northeast Laboratory Services (61 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Northeast Laboratory Services
Northeast Laboratory Services (61 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Northeast Laboratory Services has fewer employees than the Agar culture media manufacturing median and a higher 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
2021 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 7.1 3.5 4 0 0
2019 3.7 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · ME · Waterville

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 54 employers in Waterville, ME · 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 Elanco Winslow 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR B Positive Plasma - Aramingo 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boehringer-Ingelheim 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kedrion Biopharma 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE P381 @ BREWER 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE KATAHDIN FOREST PRODUCTS01-032 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooks Trap Mill 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scarborough 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colby College 1,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huhtamaki Waterville 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR MaineGeneral Medical Center - Thayer Campus 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2013 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Mittler Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunoco Transportation Aloha 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Avancer Homes LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dave Wilson Nursery 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capstone Building Corp. Office 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE DE 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluke Electronics- Plastics 61 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: 2021, 2020, 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.