Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · California

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate

South Gate, CA · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate: 3.0 TCR = 137% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate safety composite

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate: 3.6 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2024

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.6 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · South Gate, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 137% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #48/71
  • PHOTO nexAir Knoxville Hea…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: nexAir Knoxville Healthcare (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brenntag Pacific - South Gate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brenntag Pacific - South Gate averages 3.0 TCR (137% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=1 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Brenntag Pacific - South Gate falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 71 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in California.

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate (98 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Brenntag Pacific - South Gate
Brenntag Pacific - South Gate (98 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Brenntag Pacific - South Gate has more employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler 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 4.4 1.1 4 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2022 3.6 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CA · South Gate

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 75 employers in South Gate, CA · 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 nexAir Knoxville Healthcare 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Odessa OD 0909 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Packaging and Distribution - Houston 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Packaged Gas Store 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal GVIC Ranches 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chapala Berry Farms 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bains Orchards Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-027 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Gate, CA - 5650 Southern 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3180 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 573 FTE
NAT-TCR QuickBox Fulfillment - New Jersey 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Financial LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Licking Valley 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Welfare Square DI 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MADO Healthcare Uptown 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helmwood Healthcare 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capital City Mechanical 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCC 98 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. 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.