Agar culture media manufacturing · California

Teknova

Hollister, CA · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Teknova runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Teknova: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Teknova safety composite

Teknova scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Teknova: 3.5 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2018

Teknova's TCR rose 3.7 from 3.5 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Hollister, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #25/29
  • PHOTO Greendale Catalent
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greendale Catalent (0.0 TCR gap)

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Teknova in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Teknova averages 5.4 TCR (163% 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

Teknova TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Teknova falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 29 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in California.

Teknova (102 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Teknova
Teknova (102 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Teknova 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
2018 7.2 7.2 6 1 0
2017 3.5 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · CA · Hollister

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 71 employers in Hollister, CA · 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 Greendale Catalent 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atara Biotherapeutics - ION 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elanco Animal Health Larchwood 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atara Biotherapeutics - ARC 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE REFCO FARMS LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pinery LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Rey Packing Co 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONM 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 155 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jose M. Espindola 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSEMC CA 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR PacSci EMC Hollister 459 FTE
NAT-TCR TriMet Ruby Junction Operations Facility 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Scranton (Pascr) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mooresville Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage House 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE RCR Star Oregon, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE LKC 2nd Avenue 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne (Wyche) 102 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: 2018, 2017. 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.