Defoliants manufacturing · Tennessee

Drexel Chemical - Penn

Memphis, TN · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Drexel Chemical - Penn runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Defoliants manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Drexel Chemical - Penn: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Defoliants manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Drexel Chemical - Penn safety composite

Drexel Chemical - Penn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Drexel Chemical - Penn: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.34× in 2024

Drexel Chemical - Penn's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO The Scotts Company -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Scotts Company - Central Ohio Regional DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Drexel Chemical - Penn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Drexel Chemical - Penn averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Defoliants manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Drexel Chemical - Penn TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Drexel Chemical - Penn falls in its industry

145 Defoliants manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Defoliants manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Drexel Chemical - Penn (24 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Drexel Chemical - Penn
Drexel Chemical - Penn (24 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Drexel Chemical - Penn has fewer employees than the Defoliants manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2024 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · TN · Memphis

145 Defoliants manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 The Scotts Company - Central Ohio Regional DC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omnium Hampton 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gil Harbin Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodstream Corporation Lititz 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR 164 Pleasant Prairie Wi 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of San Clemente 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Snowriver Mountain Resort 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Agru America Georgetown 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eagle Pass Ready Mix 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home2 Suites Avondale 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wrightstown Agronomy 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buttonwillow Warehouse - Woodlake 24 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.