Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manufacturing · Tennessee

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone

Memphis, TN · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone safety composite

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone: 4.4 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.4 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Flexsys America LP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flexsys America LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lanxess Corporations - Oxone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lanxess Corporations - Oxone averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lanxess Corporations - Oxone falls in its industry

418 Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric a establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric a employers in Tennessee.

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone (39 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Lanxess Corporations - Oxone
Lanxess Corporations - Oxone (39 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Lanxess Corporations - Oxone has fewer employees than the Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manuf 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 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2023 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · TN · Memphis

418 Oleum (i.e., fuming sulfuric acid) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Flexsys America LP 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pencco Inc Middlesex Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hasa Inc. - Eloy 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Umicore Specialty Materials Recycling 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crain Construction, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DEKALB - WARREN CO - CNT011 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giles Co. Hwy Dept 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris & Son, Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Cub Foods Brookdale - 5510 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 359 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Products Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE VWGoA Los Angeles PDC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fletcher-Reinhardt Company 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE K & K Metal Recycling 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belton Service Center 39 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. 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.