Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing · Ohio

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC

Vandalia, OH · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC safety composite

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC: 2.5 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2018

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC's TCR rose 3.6 from 2.5 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Vandalia, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #40/44
  • PHOTO Evonik Mapleton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evonik Mapleton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC falls in its industry

552 Organo-inorganic compound manu establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 44 Organo-inorganic compound manu employers in Ohio.

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC
Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Heraeus Precious Metals North America Daychem, LLC has fewer employees than the Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018 6.1 6.1 2 1 0
2017 4.7 4.7 1 1 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · OH · Vandalia

552 Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Vandalia, 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 Evonik Mapleton 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR King Industries Norwalk 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IFF Jacksonville, FL 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Synthesis, LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nationwide Energy Partners, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GSO OFFICE - NORTH CANTON 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 283-NiSource-Wintersville OH-Ohio Valley Op 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 82 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LUK2 2,382 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crocs Inc. Cayman 605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energizer Holdings - Global Auto Care - Dayton 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Service Plastic Molding, Inc. Falls Creek 408 FTE
NAT-TCR Iron Hill Brewery- North Wales 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR McConway & Torley Plant 1801 Pittsburgh, PA 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Maysville (Kymay) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hill Country Care 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Olympic Training Center Co 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCI - Airport United Airlines Offices 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center for Children and Families 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAMKO - Lamar 45 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: 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.