Acids merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL

El Dorado, IA · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acids merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL: 4.9 TCR = 223% of Acids merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL safety composite

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2024

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL injury rate improved

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.3 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · El Dorado, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 223% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Atlanta Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlanta Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barton Solvents, Inc. EL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barton Solvents, Inc. EL averages 4.9 TCR (223% of the Acids merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=10 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Barton Solvents, Inc. EL falls in its industry

766 Acids merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Acids merchant wholesalers employers in Iowa.

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL (41 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Barton Solvents, Inc. EL
Barton Solvents, Inc. EL (41 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Barton Solvents, Inc. EL has more employees than the Acids merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 10.0 4.0 5 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 6.5 4.3 3 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IA · El Dorado

766 Acids merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Atlanta Plant 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Chemical Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEI Hawaii Iwilei 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pride Solvents & Chemical 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
NAT-TCR American Concrete Products 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prestress of the Carolinas 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shiner Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RPM Management, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clarksville 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Enterprises, Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRC - Maricopa Re-entry Center 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Building Technologies, Inc. 41 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. 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.