Industry profile · NAICS 325412

Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 946 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

946
Employers
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
14,733
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing average 2.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

2.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
946
employers reporting
14,733
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing sector (NAICS 325412) encompasses 946 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 14,733 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 2.5 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Aquestive- Warren Warren, NJ A 0.8
ZOLL Manufacturing Pittsburgh, PA A 0.8
Par - Tablets Huntsville, AL A 0.8
McNeil Helath Care, LLC Las Piedras, PR A 0.8
Baltimore Biopark Baltimore, MD A 0.8
TriRx Huntsville Pharmaceutical Services, LLC Huntsville, AL A 0.8
Creekstone Durham Durham, NC A 0.8
AnazaoHealth Corporation - Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV A 0.8
MacroGenics, Inc._CorpHQ Rockville, MD A 0.8
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Guayama, PR A 0.8
Forest Park Distribution Center Forest Park, GA A 0.8
Sandoz Broomfield Broomfield, CO A 0.8
Fagron Sterile Services Boston Canton, MA A 0.8
Truepill, Inc. Hayward, CA A 0.8
SPI Pharma Lewes, DE A 0.7
Sunrise Pharmaceutical, Inc. Rahway, NJ A 0.7
Location 2000 Plainsboro, NJ A 0.7
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. Novato, CA A 0.7
Bristol-Myers Squibb Manufacturing Company Humacao, PR A 0.7
SOFIE - Haverhill Haverhill, MA A 0.7
PCI of Rockford Rockford, IL A 0.7
Patheon Manufacturing Services, LLC Greenville, NC A 0.7
St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, FL A 0.7
Patheon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cincinnati, OH A 0.7
Lyophilization Services of New England Bedford, NH A 0.7
Myerstown, PA Myerstown, PA A 0.7
KBI Biopharma - Venture Center Durham, NC A 0.7
Patheon Softgels Inc High Point, NC A 0.7
NNI North America Home Office location Plainsboro, NJ A 0.7
Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. Deerfield, IL A 0.7
Sterling Wisconsin LLC Germantown, WI A 0.7
Baxter, North Cove, NC, USA - MFG Marion, NC A 0.7
TriLink Biotech (Wateridge) San Diego, CA A 0.7
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA - Fairfield Fairfield, NJ A 0.7
Mayne Pharma Inc. - Raleigh, NC Raleigh, NC A 0.7
Acorda Therapeutics Chelsea, MA A 0.7
Fagron Sterile Services East Wichita, KS A 0.7
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC - Beloit Beloit, WI A 0.7
Corium Innovations, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI A 0.7
Natrol Industries LLC Chatsworth, CA A 0.7
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies California Thousand Oaks, CA A 0.7
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC Seal Beach, CA A 0.7
Quotient Sciences - Philadelphia, LLC Boothwyn, PA A 0.7
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Field Force East Hanover, NJ A 0.7
Baxter Guayama Guayama, PR A 0.7
Lonza Bend Inc, Bend, OR A 0.7
Grand Avenue Decatur, IL A 0.7
Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. Deerfield, IL A 0.7
Shire: Westlake Village Westlake Village, CA A 0.7
Allston Landing Facility Allston, MA A 0.6
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This sector averages 2.5 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.