Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing · North Carolina

Pfizer PGS Sanford

Sanford, NC · ~511 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pfizer PGS Sanford runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Pfizer PGS Sanford: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pfizer PGS Sanford safety composite

Pfizer PGS Sanford 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2017

Pfizer PGS Sanford injury rate improved

Pfizer PGS Sanford's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Bristol Myers Squibb…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bristol Myers Squibb Cell Therapy Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pfizer PGS Sanford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pfizer PGS Sanford averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pfizer PGS Sanford TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Pfizer PGS Sanford falls in its industry

234 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, vir establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #12 safest of 16 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, vir employers in North Carolina.

Pfizer PGS Sanford (511 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Pfizer PGS Sanford
Pfizer PGS Sanford (511 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Pfizer PGS Sanford has more employees than the Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufa 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
2017 0.4 0.0 1 1 0
2016 1.4 0.2 1 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · NC · Sanford

234 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sanford, 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 Bristol Myers Squibb Cell Therapy Operations 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forge Biologics 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ThermoFisher Scientific 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson ImmunoResearch 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joe Gibbs Racing, Inc - NC: Cup, CFL, Redline 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5160 Winston-Salem Manufacturing 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springmoor Life Care Retirement 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Sanford Hawkins Ave 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford, NC 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Water Pool and Spa 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Tupelo Operations 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 255 - Tishman - 1 Federal Street 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UTAS Rockford Plant 1 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexeo Solutions- Morrisville 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Mary's Hospital Detroit Lakes 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phipps Neighborhoods 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Hotel Services; DBA Chicago Marriott Downtown 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roundlake, IL -Drug Delivery 511 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: 2017, 2016. 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.