ICU Medical, Inc. (ICUI)
IV therapy device plants, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 76 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
13,000
Leading staffing pattern
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 57%
- Becomes checking a model's work 35%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 13,000 employees in over 35 countries in one business, IV therapy products and systems, so one pattern carries the whole workforce.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
13,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the United States is 61% of revenue.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we had approximately 13,000 employees located in over 35 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes one business, IV therapy products, infusion systems and services, with machine operators in its manufacturing locations, material handlers in distribution centers, field service technicians and clinician trainers, all counted in one workforce, so medical equipment and supplies carry the whole workforce by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 13,000 in over 35 countries, down from 15,000 a year earlier as the filing's history shows; machine operators, material handlers, field service technicians and clinicians named among the roles; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT, 115,000 employees)18% now, 35% by 2028
- Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX, 72,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX, 59,000 employees)19% now, 42% by 2028
- Stryker Corporation (SYK, 56,000 employees)19% now, 39% by 2028
- Baxter International Inc. (BAX, 37,500 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
- Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN, 20,290 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Solventum Corporation (SOLV, 20,000 employees)20% now, 43% by 2028
- STERIS plc (STE, 17,937 employees)22% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One risk-factor sentence says attackers increasingly use tools and techniques including artificial intelligence to circumvent controls and avoid detection.
- “Even if identified, we may be unable to adequately investigate or remediate incidents or breaches due to attackers increasingly using tools and techniques (including artificial intelligence) that are designed to circumvent controls, to avoid detection, and to remove or obfuscate forensic evidence.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 13,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 15,000 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 14,000 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 14,500 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 8,500 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 7,900 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 8,000 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 8,100 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,802 | 2018-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,803 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,446 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,280 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,269 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,239 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,106 | 2012-03-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,216 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 1,911 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 1,829 | 2009-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 1,696 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 1,819 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,373 | 2006-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 587 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 574 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 719 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 476 | 2002-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 419 | 2001-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 274 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 222 | 1999-03-03 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 130 | 1998-03-12 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 121 | 1997-03-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by function or country: one pattern by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated; the data service's segment table (equipment and software revenue) does not describe the business and was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000883984-26-000008, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of ICU Medical, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce ICU Medical, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does ICU Medical, Inc. employ?
- 13,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up ICU Medical, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does ICU Medical, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 1, 2 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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