Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing · Ohio

Chickering

Cincinnati, OH · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chickering runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chickering: 6.0 TCR = 180% of Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chickering safety composite

Chickering scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−3.2

2018→2019

Chickering injury rate improved

Chickering's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.6 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.6 · 2019=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 180% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO National Plastics Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Plastics Color, Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Chickering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chickering averages 6.0 TCR (180% of the Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chickering TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chickering falls in its industry

75 Pigments (except animal black, establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Pigments (except animal black, employers in Ohio.

Chickering (94 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chickering
Chickering (94 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Chickering has more employees than the Pigments (except animal black, bone blac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 4.3 4.3 4 0 0
2018 7.6 6.5 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · OH · Cincinnati

75 Pigments (except animal black, bone black), organic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 National Plastics Color, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Louis Facility 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jos. H. Lowenstein & Sons, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colors & Effects USA LLC - North Charleston Site 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scherzinger Pest Control 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy Contact Center 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTERN - WEST PARK SHOP 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0639 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard Leisure Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Arby's 7601 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 3747 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2327 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2027 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 2701 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0005 1656 94 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: 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.