Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown

Allentown, PA · ~46 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown: 1.6 TCR = 72% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown safety composite

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown held a steady TCR band

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Allentown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/43
  • PHOTO Colonial Chemical So…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colonial Chemical Solutions, Telfair (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown averages 1.6 TCR (72% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 43 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Pennsylvania.

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown (46 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown
Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown (46 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Allentown has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au 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
2024 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 4.0 2.0 2 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 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2016 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · PA · Allentown

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Colonial Chemical Solutions, Telfair 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Fluids Solutions 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix - E Riverview Dr 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pflaumer Brothers Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Casing, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Elizabethtown ELI1 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Specialty Contractors - Kansas City Great Plains 122 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dis-Tran Packaged Substations PSS 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuovo Pasta Productions, Ltd. - Cleveland 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DY4 Ormond Beach Service Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morris Industries, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Lumber - N. Highlands 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC Sebring 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain PetSmart NV 46 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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