Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing · Georgia

Geo Specialty Chemicals

Cedartown, GA · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Geo Specialty Chemicals runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Geo Specialty Chemicals: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Geo Specialty Chemicals safety composite

Geo Specialty Chemicals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Geo Specialty Chemicals: 1.4 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2023

Geo Specialty Chemicals's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.4 in 2021 to 3.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Cedartown, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO American Distilling …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Distilling Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Geo Specialty Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Geo Specialty Chemicals averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Geo Specialty Chemicals TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Geo Specialty Chemicals falls in its industry

58 Naphthalenesulfonic acid manuf establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Naphthalenesulfonic acid manuf employers in Georgia.

Geo Specialty Chemicals (60 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Geo Specialty Chemicals
Geo Specialty Chemicals (60 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Geo Specialty Chemicals has fewer employees than the Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing 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
2023 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · GA · Cedartown

58 Naphthalenesulfonic acid manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 25 employers in Cedartown, GA · 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 American Distilling Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 015-ROE Mt View 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinova, Inc Brunswick 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinova, Inc 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dalton Hatchery 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Fulton Operating - 116675 Wills Road 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gainesville District - Jackson EMC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prestwick Companies 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedartown 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDTWGAAN 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 727 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Valley Nursing & Rehab Center 218 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit 800 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UT004 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stonehaven Senior Living 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca SC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Germain Nissan 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Steel Aerospace 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Ridge of Decatur 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE A Seabra Foods I LLC 60 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.