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

Chemisphere

St Louis, MO · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chemisphere runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Chemisphere: 2.0 TCR = 90% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chemisphere safety composite

Chemisphere scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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)
D 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Chemisphere: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2017

Chemisphere's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · St Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO W.A. Murphy Company,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W.A. Murphy Company, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chemisphere in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chemisphere averages 2.0 TCR (90% 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

Chemisphere TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Chemisphere falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Missouri.

Chemisphere (49 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Chemisphere
Chemisphere (49 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Chemisphere has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au 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
2017 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · MO · St Louis

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 349 employers in St Louis, MO · 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 W.A. Murphy Company, INC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomasville 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Chemicals Corporation 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle A Ranches 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE 031 - Meter Services - MO 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Vernon Headquarters 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bolivar Headquarters 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital South 3,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4M Building Solutions 2,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services Higher Education 1,607 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Scrap Management PC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PSC Industrial Outsourcing, LP-BPT 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Rose Bowl Stadium 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South TX Div/Dist Offc New Brn ENNB 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison Cs Hotel Group LLC. 49 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: 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.