Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Chatanooga

Chatanooga, TN · ~50 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chatanooga runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Chatanooga: 1.7 TCR = 78% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chatanooga safety composite

Chatanooga scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Chatanooga: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3.99× in 2020

Chatanooga's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 3.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Chatanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 78% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Dallas Chemical Center
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dallas Chemical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chatanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chatanooga averages 1.7 TCR (78% 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

Chatanooga TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Chatanooga falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Tennessee.

Chatanooga (50 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Chatanooga
Chatanooga (50 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Chatanooga has more employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler 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
2020 6.9 6.9 0 4 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TN · Chatanooga

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Chatanooga, TN · 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 Dallas Chemical Center 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Falls Packaged Gas Store 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northeast Salem Plant and Branch 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Wayne 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Greenhouse 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winchester Utility System 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. R. Newman & Associates, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&C Construction 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPW Industrial Services, Inc. - Volkswagen Waste 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chattanooga, TN 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Integrity Biochem 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Electric Cooperative Services- Stephenville 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Keihin North America 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bartow Florida 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin Feed and Supply Company 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Product Solutions Anaheim 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indio Location 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlsbad Seapointe Resort Owners Assn. Inc. 50 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.