Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Connecticut

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire

Cheshire, CT · ~33 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire: 0.4 TCR = 16% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire safety composite

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire held a steady TCR band

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Cheshire, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/13
  • PHOTO Bellmawr APM
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellmawr APM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire averages 0.4 TCR (16% of the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 13 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Connecticut.

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire (33 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire
Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire (33 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Airgas Specialty Gases - Cheshire has fewer employees than the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merch median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CT · Cheshire

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 68 employers in Cheshire, CT · 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 Bellmawr APM 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenntag Great Lakes - St. Paul 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake City Distribution 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hays, KS OV104 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven WPCA 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority - Administrative Bldg. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Nutmeg Companies, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaFramboise Well Drilling, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozzuto's Inc. 1,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR 88500 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire Corectional Institution 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire 385 FTE
NAT-TCR Clark Construction Group CA LP 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Mall 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Binghamton, NY 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodrich Corporation (Troy OH) 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southeast Milk, Inc Operating 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bayport Distribution 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE SLC Salt Lake City Airport 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Ambulance (Gold Cross-Eau Claire) 33 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.