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

Corechem, Inc.

Knoxville, TN · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corechem, Inc. runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Corechem, Inc.: 3.9 TCR = 177% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corechem, Inc. safety composite

Corechem, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Corechem, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2022

Corechem, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 177% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Iron Works Complex
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iron Works Complex (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corechem, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corechem, Inc. averages 3.9 TCR (177% 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

Corechem, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Corechem, Inc. falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #13 safest of 16 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Tennessee.

Corechem, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Corechem, Inc.
Corechem, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Corechem, Inc. has fewer 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
2022 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2021 10.4 5.2 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TN · Knoxville

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, 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 Iron Works Complex 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgetown 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir Okeechobee Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTS Distribution, Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humboldt Hatchery 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cairo Farmers Gin, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000932 WATER/SEWER-SEWER FCLTY MAINT 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE George W Reagan Company 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR New Carrollton Rail Yard 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley HomeStore 35 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Roofing Company of Florida 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxion Wheels 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE FPSS 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Mechanical Services Inc - Only Branch 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Target Construction, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maumee Valley Fabricators, Inc. 31 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.