Blood banks · Texas

South Texas Blood Center

San Antonio, TX · ~273 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Texas Blood Center runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade B.

South Texas Blood Center: 2.3 TCR = 61% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Texas Blood Center safety composite

South Texas Blood Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−3.2

2018→2019

South Texas Blood Center injury rate improved

South Texas Blood Center's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.9 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.9 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · San Antonio, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #66/208
  • PHOTO BMT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMT (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Texas Blood Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Texas Blood Center averages 2.3 TCR (61% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

South Texas Blood Center TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.8

Where South Texas Blood Center falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 208 Blood banks employers in Texas.

South Texas Blood Center (273 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate South Texas Blood Center
South Texas Blood Center (273 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

South Texas Blood Center has more employees than the Blood banks median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019 0.7 0.7 2 0 0
2018 3.9 3.5 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · TX · San Antonio

1,713 Blood banks employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,207 employers in San Antonio, TX · 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 BMT 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown, OH-Biolife 623 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitalant NV Reno 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Falls-College, ID - Biomat 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lennar Austin/San Antonio 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lasco Austin 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chevron Phillips Port Arthur 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE BASF Corporation 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bexar County Hospital District 8,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legend Oaks Health & Rehabilitation West San Antonio 6,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISS Facility Services Inc. 6,177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vida of San Antonio 5,262 FTE
NAT-TCR Daily Republic 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Queens Univ of Charlotte 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sms 1337/1377 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Vernon 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veeder-Root (Altoona) 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE 00-TTCO-BIRMINGHAM 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utility Lines Construction Services - 112 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staten Island Service Center (Ny78) 273 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: 2019, 2018. 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.