Alkalies merchant wholesalers · West Virginia

Elementis Specialties

Charleston, WV · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elementis Specialties runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Alkalies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Elementis Specialties: 1.9 TCR = 88% of Alkalies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elementis Specialties safety composite

Elementis Specialties scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Elementis Specialties: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2020

Elementis Specialties's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Charleston, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Emery Oleochemicals …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emery Oleochemicals LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elementis Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elementis Specialties averages 1.9 TCR (88% of the Alkalies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Elementis Specialties TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Elementis Specialties falls in its industry

766 Alkalies merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Alkalies merchant wholesalers employers in West Virginia.

Elementis Specialties (40 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Elementis Specialties
Elementis Specialties (40 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Elementis Specialties has more employees than the Alkalies merchant wholesalers 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
2020 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2019 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · WV · Charleston

766 Alkalies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 158 employers in Charleston, WV · 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 Emery Oleochemicals LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Leandro Warehouse 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evansville East (S101) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shoreview 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Worley Industrial Services at Chemours Washington Works 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ Burk LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE FoxFire, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinity Electric LLC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Hospital 3,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMC Memorial Division 3,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital 3,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston Area Medical Center General Division 1,990 FTE
NAT-TCR VRS Hickory, NC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudick Excavating, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1703 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1459 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Flavors, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Ave. Chicago Store 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE OAK Oakland 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emory and Henry College 40 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: 2020, 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.