Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia

Columbia, IL · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia: 2.1 TCR = 94% of Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia safety composite

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia: 1.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.0 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Columbia, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #19/38
  • PHOTO Hillyard Sioux Falls
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillyard Sioux Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia averages 2.1 TCR (94% of the Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia TCR series: 2021=1 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia falls in its industry

766 Chemical additives (e.g., conc establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 38 Chemical additives (e.g., conc employers in Illinois.

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia (98 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia
EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia (98 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia has more employees than the Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food 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
2024 3.0 1.0 2 1 0
2023 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Columbia

766 Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in Columbia, IL · 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 Hillyard Sioux Falls 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doe and Ingalls of MA Operating LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Louis Soper St 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE EC&R Services, LLC-Wind Chicago 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Marion 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Water Reclamation District 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luhr Crosby LLC. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luhr Bros., Inc. 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crown Linen Service, Inc - MC2 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Budnick Headquarters 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Rochester, NY - 150 FedEx Way 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ballys Dover 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cross Technologies Inc Nissan Smyrna 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 8185001 United Cargo 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cresco Labs - Uxbridge 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Steel Inc. Houston 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olathe, KS - 10515 S K 7 Hwy 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl D. Perkins Vocational Rehabilitation Center 98 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.