Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing · Illinois

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation

Vernon Hills, IL · ~205 workers · 4 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

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation safety composite

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation: 0.6 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.6 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Vernon Hills, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #12/30
  • PHOTO WHK Biosystems
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WHK Biosystems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation falls in its industry

741 Instruments, mechanical micros establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 30 Instruments, mechanical micros employers in Illinois.

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation (205 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation
Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation (205 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation has more employees than the Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2023 2.1 1.1 3 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · IL · Vernon Hills

741 Instruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, IL · 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 WHK Biosystems 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. Roselle Street & Remote 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BD Medical Systems 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresenius Kabi USA LLC and Fenwal Inc 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE KS Energy Services (Northern IL) 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avexis - Libertyville 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE MBL USA Corporation 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dukane Precast Aurora Plant & Office 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rust-Oleum 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
NAT-TCR D'Agostino #809 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Science Technologies, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Riley Industrial Services, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 20167 - Freeport 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Maanen Electric, Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flamingo Paradise Gaming, LLC 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voltage Multipliers, Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1263 - Edgewater 205 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.