Agar culture media manufacturing · Maryland

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD

Columbia, MD · ~182 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD safety composite

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−2.9

2021→2024

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD injury rate improved

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD's TCR fell 2.9 from 4.1 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Columbia, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Novartis Pharmaceuti…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novartis Pharmaceuticals (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith & Nephew Columbia MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith & Nephew Columbia MD averages 2.0 TCR (60% 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

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith & Nephew Columbia MD falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in Maryland.

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD (182 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Smith & Nephew Columbia MD
Smith & Nephew Columbia MD (182 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Smith & Nephew Columbia MD 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
2024 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.1 0.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · MD · Columbia

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 Novartis Pharmaceuticals 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shire: Alewife 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elanco Maine Winslow 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proliant Biologicals - Boone 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manders Decorating Company, Inc. 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0034-0034-03602 FAC-03602-BETHESDA-MD 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1295 - Greenbelt 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2009 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Electronics - Riverstar Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Care New England Medical Group 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bobcat of Atlanta - Marietta 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Electric co-op 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rothman Orthopaedic Speciality Hospital LLC 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 272 - Bowling Green 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot of Illinois, Inc. - Corporate 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Devon Industrial Group 182 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, 2021. 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.