Bar soaps manufacturing · Oregon

Essential Wholesale & Labs

Portland, OR · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essential Wholesale & Labs runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Essential Wholesale & Labs: 5.1 TCR = 156% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essential Wholesale & Labs safety composite

Essential Wholesale & Labs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Essential Wholesale & Labs: 6.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2019

Essential Wholesale & Labs's TCR rose 1.7 from 6.0 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 156% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO Tennesee - Royal Che…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tennesee - Royal Chemical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essential Wholesale & Labs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essential Wholesale & Labs averages 5.1 TCR (156% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essential Wholesale & Labs TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Essential Wholesale & Labs falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Essential Wholesale & Labs (58 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essential Wholesale & Labs
Essential Wholesale & Labs (58 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Essential Wholesale & Labs has fewer employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 7.7 7.7 4 1 0
2018 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2017 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2016 6.0 6.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · OR · Portland

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Tennesee - Royal Chemical 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Beauty Group 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Labs 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birko Corp 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Providence Nursery LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Odell 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 2 -Corvallis 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Pearland Facility 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works Street 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR QCI East 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR George's Virginia Grow Out 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE RCX Mississippi 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edison Road 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 124T Tampa 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Andes Senior Living 58 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: 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.