Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing · Kentucky

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company

Calvert City, KY · ~513 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company: 0.8 TCR = 26% of Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company safety composite

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2020

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company injury rate improved

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.1 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=0.5 · 2020=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Calvert City, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Arclin Amines
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~513 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arclin Amines (0.0 TCR gap)

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ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company averages 0.8 TCR (26% 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

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=0.5 · 2020=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company falls in its industry

552 Organo-inorganic compound manu establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Organo-inorganic compound manu employers in Kentucky.

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company (513 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company
ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company (513 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company has more employees than the Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing median and a lower 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
2020 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2018 0.5 0.3 3 0 0
2017 1.4 1.2 8 0 0
2016 1.1 0.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · KY · Calvert City

552 Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 41 employers in Calvert City, KY · 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 Arclin Amines 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Pasadena 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur Glycols 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8807840-Toyota - Hebron, KY 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carrollton Site 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scottsville, DC 514 FTE
STATE-SIZE JM Smucker Company 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Vinyl's Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Calvert City 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkema Inc. Calvert City Plant 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wacker Chemical Corporation 156 FTE
NAT-TCR Glasforms 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 3 Cooper/Sheridan Pavilion 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-America Manufacturing Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joy Global Surface Mining Inc. - Longview, TX 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitney Bowes Presort Services - Dallas Fort Worth (TX44) 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHLG- Minden LLC (Minden Medical Center) 513 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC - Elkton 513 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: 2020, 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.