Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing · California

Novartis

San Carlos, CA · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novartis runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Novartis: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novartis safety composite

Novartis scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Novartis held a steady TCR band

Novartis's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · San Carlos, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #30/79
  • PHOTO Nutraceutical Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nutraceutical Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novartis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novartis averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novartis TCR series: 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Novartis falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 79 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in California.

Novartis (169 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Novartis
Novartis (169 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Novartis has fewer employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2018 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2017 1.5 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · CA · San Carlos

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in San Carlos, CA · 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 Nutraceutical Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CME Building 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procter & Gamble Phoenix 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPT Laboratories Ltd. (Aerosol Plant) 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30507) 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Mateo County Transit District 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Ksi Trading Corp - 88fl 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sleepy Creek Turkeys 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pride of the Hills Mfg. of Wooster LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Building Supply - Jaguar 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Downtown Franklin Branch 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazleton, PA 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Area Residential Care Main Building 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE SandRidge Operating - Alva Office 169 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.