Herbicides manufacturing · Tennessee

Drexel Chemical - Tunica

Memphis, TN · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Drexel Chemical - Tunica runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Drexel Chemical - Tunica: 4.9 TCR = 150% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Drexel Chemical - Tunica safety composite

Drexel Chemical - Tunica scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2022→2024

Drexel Chemical - Tunica injury rate improved

Drexel Chemical - Tunica's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.7 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.7 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 150% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO VDSCWC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VDSCWC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Drexel Chemical - Tunica in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Drexel Chemical - Tunica averages 4.9 TCR (150% of the Herbicides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Drexel Chemical - Tunica TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Drexel Chemical - Tunica falls in its industry

145 Herbicides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #5 safest of 9 Herbicides manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Drexel Chemical - Tunica (46 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 - Tunica
Drexel Chemical - Tunica (46 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Drexel Chemical - Tunica has fewer employees than the Herbicides 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 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2022 4.7 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · TN · Memphis

145 Herbicides 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 VDSCWC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Millington Operations 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriEst Ag - Greenville, NC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Street Plant 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton County Electric 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibson County Utility District 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 670 South Cooper Street 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS Energy Solutions, LLC 46 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 Blachly-Lane Electric Cooperative 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2020 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2672 Shrewsbury 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets South Charleston 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7102133 FPL Wild Azalea 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Catherines Village 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katahdin Valley Health Center, Millinocket 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mica Plant 46 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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