Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Chemical Resources, Inc

Louisville, KY · ~30 workers · 5 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

Chemical Resources, Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Chemical Resources, Inc: 1.4 TCR = 64% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chemical Resources, Inc safety composite

Chemical Resources, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Chemical Resources, Inc: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.3× in 2020

Chemical Resources, Inc's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 2.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 64% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Peoria (S165)
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peoria (S165) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chemical Resources, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chemical Resources, Inc averages 1.4 TCR (64% 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

Chemical Resources, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Chemical Resources, Inc falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Kentucky.

Chemical Resources, Inc (30 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 Chemical Resources, Inc
Chemical Resources, Inc (30 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Chemical Resources, Inc has fewer 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · KY · Louisville

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Peoria (S165) 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zaclon LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchorage Branch 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Brothers Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 60 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU Magnolia Compressor Station 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Mobilcomm, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 510 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Turner at Honeywell International Inc. Geismar LA 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogers Group Inc-Knoxville 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chemicals Inc, USA 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresno FO 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee New Berlin VM 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 114 - Seattle, WA 30 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, 2016. 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.