Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing · Georgia

Helena Industries - Cordele

Cordele, GA · ~233 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helena Industries - Cordele runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Helena Industries - Cordele: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helena Industries - Cordele safety composite

Helena Industries - Cordele scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.79 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

Helena Industries - Cordele: 2.3 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

Helena Industries - Cordele's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Cordele, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO DeLaval Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeLaval Manufacturing Des Plaines Illinois (0.1 TCR gap)

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Helena Industries - Cordele in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helena Industries - Cordele averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Helena Industries - Cordele TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Helena Industries - Cordele falls in its industry

145 Exterminating chemical product establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Exterminating chemical product employers in Georgia.

Helena Industries - Cordele (233 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Helena Industries - Cordele
Helena Industries - Cordele (233 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Helena Industries - Cordele has more employees than the Exterminating chemical products (e.g., f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 3.1 1.8 7 0 0
2021 3.3 0.0 3 5 0
2020 2.1 1.3 2 3 0
2019 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2018 3.9 2.6 9 0 0
2016 2.3 1.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · GA · Cordele

145 Exterminating chemical products (e.g., fungicides, insecticides, pesticides) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 49 employers in Cordele, 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 DeLaval Manufacturing Des Plaines Illinois 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Street 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nufarm - Greenville Plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trical - Corona 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allison-Smith Co. - MWG 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 67 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coats North America - Albany Mill 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE GERALD JONES VW, INC 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crisp Regional Hospital 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1006 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marvair 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1006 290 FTE
NAT-TCR B's Homecare Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 83 - Merrillville 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ORL-ODFL 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Globe Engineering Company 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monat Global Corp 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plaza 349 349 S. 200 E. 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-11DG010 233 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.