Industry profile · NAICS 325414

Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 280 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

280
Employers
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
3,302
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing average 2.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

2.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
280
employers reporting
3,302
recordable injuries

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

What Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing sector (NAICS 325414) encompasses 280 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 3,302 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.0 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 2.0 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 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) 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
American Type Culture Collection - Main Campus Manassas, VA B 2.5
Manassas Catalent Manassas, VA B 2.5
SPL Waunakee Waunakee, WI B 2.5
Mediatech, Inc. - Woodland Woodland, CA B 2.5
Alexion Bogart Bogart, GA B 2.4
Grifols - L.A. Campus Los Angeles, CA B 2.4
ThermoFisher Grand Island Grand Island, NY B 2.4
BD Miami Miami, FL B 2.3
Fujifilm Irvine Scientific Santa Ana, CA B 2.3
LaunchWorks, LLC Beverly, MA B 2.2
Takeda Pharmaceutical Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA B 2.2
Cell Therapy Lab Saint Paul, MN B 2.1
ATCC Manassas, VA B 2.0
Shire - Milford MA Milford, MA B 2.0
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Morris Plains, NJ B 2.0
Shire: Alewife Cambridge, MA B 2.0
Smith & Nephew Columbia MD Columbia, MD B 2.0
Elanco Maine Winslow Winslow, ME B 2.0
Proliant Biologicals - Boone Boone, IA B 2.0
CSL Behring LLC Bradley, IL B 1.9
Rentschler Biopharma Inc. Milford, MA B 1.9
Kite Pharma TCF05 Manufacturing Facility Frederick, MD B 1.9
Protein Sciences Corporation Pearl River, NY B 1.9
Snedden Drive Boone, IA B 1.9
DeSoto, KS Facility Desoto, KS B 1.8
Madison West Madison, WI B 1.8
Elkhorn, NE Facility Elkhorn, NE B 1.8
Allogene Therapeutics Newark, CA B 1.8
Thermo Fisher Scientific Grand Island, NY B 1.8
Boca Campus Boca Raton, FL B 1.7
SAFC Biosciences Lenexa, KS A 1.6
Kite Pharma, Inc. El Segundo, CA A 1.6
Shire Georgia Social Circle, GA A 1.6
Aldevron, LLC Fargo, ND A 1.6
Pilot Plant Frederick, MD A 1.6
Merck Ames, IA Facility Ames, IA A 1.6
Grifols Therapeutics LLC (Clayton) Clayton, NC A 1.6
Emergent Biodefense Operations Lansing Lansing, MI A 1.6
Brammer Bio Florida Alachua, FL A 1.6
Protein Sciences Corporation, a Delaware Company Meriden, CT A 1.6
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas, LLC College Station, TX A 1.6
Elanco Fort Dodge Fort Dodge, IA A 1.5
Patheon Biologics St. Louis St. Louis, MO A 1.5
Intervet Inc. (DBA - Merck AH) - Millsboro Sites Millsboro, DE A 1.4
Brammer Bio Somerville Somerville, MA A 1.4
Pacific Heights San Diego, CA A 1.4
Miromatrix Medical Eden Prairie, MN A 1.4
Zoetis - White Hall, IL White Hall, IL A 1.4
Boehringer Ingelheim - Athens Athens, GA A 1.4
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies U.S.A., Inc. Morrisville, NC A 1.4
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This sector averages 2.0 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.