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

EMD Millipore Norwood

Norwood, OH · ~112 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMD Millipore Norwood runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

EMD Millipore Norwood: 1.6 TCR = 70% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMD Millipore Norwood safety composite

EMD Millipore Norwood scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

EMD Millipore Norwood: 1.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

EMD Millipore Norwood's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.1 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Norwood, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #28/53
  • PHOTO Bakersfield, CA Sales
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bakersfield, CA Sales (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMD Millipore Norwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMD Millipore Norwood averages 1.6 TCR (70% 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

EMD Millipore Norwood TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where EMD Millipore Norwood falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 53 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Ohio.

EMD Millipore Norwood (112 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 EMD Millipore Norwood
EMD Millipore Norwood (112 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

EMD Millipore Norwood has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a lower 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
2021 3.5 0.9 2 2 0
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · OH · Norwood

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 11 employers in Norwood, OH · 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 Bakersfield, CA Sales 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark Packaged Gas Plant 1 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydrite Milwaukee West - N 87th 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenntag Pacific - Fresno 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tuttle Construction 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker Construction Enterprises, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fechko Excavating LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Facility 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens Industry Incorporated 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR OH Norwood 4620 Forest Ave (NOW) 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDK - Norwood 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Shepherd Chemical Company 162 FTE
NAT-TCR Vista Distribution Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Tank Car Plant 19 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Asheboro Bearing Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilkes Barre 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennant Company Louisville 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrick, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innovative Solutions 112 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.