Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate) manufacturing · Maine

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng

Searsport, ME · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng safety composite

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng: 3.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.6 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Searsport, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P6
  • PHOTO Thatcher Company of …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thatcher Company of New York (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng falls in its industry

418 Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng (84 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng
General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng (84 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

General Alum & Chem Corp of New Eng has more employees than the Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, 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 6.0 1.5 4 0 0
2023 9.3 6.6 7 0 0
2022 3.6 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · ME · Searsport

418 Alums (e.g., aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 8 employers in Searsport, ME · 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 Thatcher Company of New York 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BleachTech LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PVS Steel Services - Allenport 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LANXESS Oxone Memphis Site 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Futureguard Building Products 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Round Pond 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molnlycke Manufacturing US - AWC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freightliner Western Star of Maine - Bangor 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR GAC Chemical Inc 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Searsport 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Searsport Terminal 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTO Searsport 38 FTE
NAT-TCR JJ Cardosi - Main Office 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Terraces at Summit View 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PTR Tool And Plastics 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Schlagel Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skutt Ceramic Products 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mill Creek Lumber and Supply - Truss 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Senior Living- Decatur 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westminster Gardens 84 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, 2022. 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.