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

BSW Odessa

Odessa, TX · ~15 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BSW Odessa runs at 68% 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.

BSW Odessa: 1.5 TCR = 68% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BSW Odessa safety composite

BSW Odessa 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2018→2024

BSW Odessa injury rate improved

BSW Odessa's TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Odessa, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #49/101
  • PHOTO Arc3 Gases, Corporat…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arc3 Gases, Corporate Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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BSW Odessa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BSW Odessa averages 1.5 TCR (68% 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

BSW Odessa TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where BSW Odessa falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 101 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Texas.

BSW Odessa (15 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 BSW Odessa
BSW Odessa (15 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

BSW Odessa has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TX · Odessa

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 298 employers in Odessa, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Arc3 Gases, Corporate Operations 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wampum Hardware Co Somerset 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma City Branch 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cowpens 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wells Farmers Cooperative gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 67 Gin Co., Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ross Gin 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR H&P U.S. Land - West 2,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saulsbury Industries Inc. 2,602 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Odessa, TX 2,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Odessa 8200 E IH-20, Odessa, TX 79706 858 FTE
NAT-TCR Specialty Finishes 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Electric 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mueller Water Products 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Layton Facility 1.5 TCR

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. 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.