Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc

Pleasant Prairie, WI · ~227 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc: 2.5 TCR = 116% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc safety composite

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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: 2.1 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.1 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Pleasant Prairie, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #15/35
  • PHOTO Hillyard Co. - DC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillyard Co. - DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc averages 2.5 TCR (116% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) 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 TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2022=3 · BLS 2.2

Where EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 35 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Wisconsin.

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc (227 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc
EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc (227 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au 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
2022 3.0 1.7 7 0 0
2017 2.1 1.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · WI · Pleasant Prairie

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 97 employers in Pleasant Prairie, WI · 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 Co. - DC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Distribution Inc. North Royalton 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nexeo Solutions - Doraville 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville 0975 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Payne & Dolan - Wauk/Mil./Trans./QC/Mfg. 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee Service Center 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mullins Cheese 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Beef 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office - H1 1,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9555 - 76th Street 1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate (H2) 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate (H1) 757 FTE
NAT-TCR Rocky Mount (formerly Trinity Packaging Corporation) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Save A Lot #418 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Giant #516 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1932 VGS - Owosso, MI FF, LLC #38-2750461 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE S.M. Lawrence 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vi at Silverstone 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE 359628-Nyc-James a Farley Sta 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wurth Adams Brooklyn Park 227 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: 2022, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.