Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in health sciences · Wisconsin

PPD BioA Madison

Middleton, WI · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PPD BioA Madison runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in health sciences workplace, earning a grade C.

PPD BioA Madison: 0.5 TCR = 104% of Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in health sciences BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PPD BioA Madison safety composite

PPD BioA Madison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

PPD BioA Madison injury rate improved

PPD BioA Madison's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541711 · Middleton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 0.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Eisai Inc. - 210 Wel…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eisai Inc. - 210 Welsh Pool Rd. (0.0 TCR gap)

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PPD BioA Madison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PPD BioA Madison averages 0.5 TCR (104% of the Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in health sciences BLS benchmark).

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

PPD BioA Madison TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=0 · BLS 0.5

Where PPD BioA Madison falls in its industry

189 Biotechnology research and dev establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Biotechnology research and dev employers in Wisconsin.

PPD BioA Madison (104 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PPD BioA Madison
PPD BioA Madison (104 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8

PPD BioA Madison has fewer employees than the Biotechnology research and development l median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541711 · WI · Middleton

189 Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in health sciences employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 104 employers in Middleton, WI · 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 Eisai Inc. - 210 Welsh Pool Rd. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pfizer Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanofi @ 225 2nd Ave 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poseida Therapeutics 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Superior Fresh LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE ST Specialty Foods 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - North Office 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE GBP DePere 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR PPD Madison 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR ETC (Middleton) 841 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Girl Middleton 543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarters 539 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Venture Inc. - Transportation 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lone Star Tubular Operations 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dyersburg Facility 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR REN192 Detroit 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 815 Pallets, Inc dba CALco - Richmond, IL 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Batavia - Aldi 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0011 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake Airport (Utslk) 104 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.