Starch glues manufacturing · Ohio

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio

West Alexandria, OH · ~68 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio safety composite

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.4

2016→2018

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio injury rate improved

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio's TCR fell 1.4 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · West Alexandria, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/38
  • PHOTO DDP Specialty Electr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DDP Specialty Electronic Materials / Essex Specialty Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 38 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio (68 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio
Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio (68 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Dow Chemical Co - West Alexandria, Ohio has more employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · OH · West Alexandria

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 5 employers in West Alexandria, 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 DDP Specialty Electronic Materials / Essex Specialty Products 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemical Division 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frankfort - Corsair 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bostik Temecula 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC OH 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maria Gardens 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 4 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brubaker Grain & Chemical, Inc 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Specialty Products USA LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Location 1 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brown Transport inc 30 FTE
NAT-TCR HBSHSENJ64 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Broussard ENK9 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond Warehouse ENB9 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Comtran Cable 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Board Mill Operations 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Clinton LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Health 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriMet Portland Streetcar 68 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: 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.