Blood banking · North Dakota

United Blood Services-Fargo

Name: United Blood Services-Fargo Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Fargo, ND · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

United Blood Services-Fargo runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade C.

United Blood Services-Fargo: 4.5 TCR = 118% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Blood Services-Fargo safety composite

United Blood Services-Fargo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

United Blood Services-Fargo: 1.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

United Blood Services-Fargo's TCR rose 6.0 from 1.5 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 118% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/12
PHOTO IMPACTLIFE - Peoria
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IMPACTLIFE - Peoria (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows United Blood Services-Fargo averages 4.5 TCR (118% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

United Blood Services-Fargo TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=7.5 · BLS 3.8

Where United Blood Services-Fargo falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Blood banking employers in North Dakota.

United Blood Services-Fargo (78 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

United Blood Services-Fargo has more employees than the Blood banking median and a higher 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
2017	7.5	0.0	1	4	0
2016	1.5	0.0	0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · ND · Fargo

1,713 Blood banking employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	IMPACTLIFE - Peoria	PEORIA, IL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Continental Services Group, Inc. - Miami	MIAMI, FL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Henderson 10134	HENDERSON, NV	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Charlotte 10418	CHARLOTTE, NC	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Killdeer Field Office	KILLDEER	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Construction Engineers Inc	GRAND FORKS	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1170_2471	HORACE	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Malt - Spiritwood, ND	SPIRITWOOD	78 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals	Fargo	2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Fargo	2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Fargo	2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals	Fargo	2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR	CB117 - Dade County, FL-Core	Miami, FL	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	West Farms Day Program	Bronx, NY	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Superior Concrete/Chantilly Plant	Chantilly, VA	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Unique Thrift Store-128fltn	Brooklyn, NY	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Willard LLC	Willard, MO	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Giant 779	Manassas, VA	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	KIK Chicago	Chicago, IL	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	KP - Frazer CSC	Malvern, PA	78 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.