Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~55 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center: 3.9 TCR = 179% of Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center safety composite

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2022

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Buffalo Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #25/43
  • PHOTO Owens & Minor Raleigh
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens & Minor Raleigh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center averages 3.9 TCR (179% of the Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=5.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center falls in its industry

754 Laboratory equipment, dental a establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 43 Laboratory equipment, dental a employers in Illinois.

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center (55 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center
Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center (55 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sysmex America, Inc. - DC Center has fewer employees than the Laboratory equipment, dental and medical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2021 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2017 4.9 1.6 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · IL · Buffalo Grove

754 Laboratory equipment, dental and medical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 Owens & Minor Raleigh 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HPHI 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Visalia BTM 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 305 - GRAND RAPIDS FAS 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G6 - Gas Storage 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE BS&T Construction 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOSCO Construction Services, Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Charlotte Steel Mill 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Stream Corp 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Your Building Centers - Milton 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Marys Carbon Company 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sharp Transit LLC Springfield OH 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE MedVet Mountain View 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarksville OTB 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stowe Elementary School 55 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 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.