Chemical gases merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN

La Porte, IN · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chemical gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN: 1.4 TCR = 65% of Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN safety composite

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN held a steady TCR band

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · La Porte, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/20
  • PHOTO Lansing
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lansing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN averages 1.4 TCR (65% of the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN falls in its industry

766 Chemical gases merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 20 Chemical gases merchant wholes employers in Indiana.

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN (49 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN
Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN (49 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Alexander Chemical - Kingsbury, IN has more employees than the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers 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
2019 2.1 0.0 0 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IN · La Porte

766 Chemical gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 45 employers in La Porte, IN · 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 Lansing 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americo Chemical Products Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dominion Chemical Company 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GCP 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeland Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoosier Pride Farms, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall Multi-Crop Research Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Rush1 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Porte Hospital Company LLC 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - La Porte Castings 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2276 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holsum of Fort Wayne, INc 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Icon Health & Fitness Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Federal Bureau of Prisons 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Heights Elementary 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Woods Senior Living 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlas Roofing Corporation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing - Machine Tool 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arc Electric Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE BBC Fasteners Inc - ALL 49 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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