Sodium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing · Tennessee

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII)

Chattanooga, TN · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sodium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII): 2.1 TCR = 62% of Sodium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) safety composite

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII): 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII)'s TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Momentive Performanc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Momentive Performance Materials - Texas City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Sodium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) falls in its industry

552 Sodium organic compounds, not establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Sodium organic compounds, not employers in Tennessee.

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) (32 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII)
Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) (32 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Nippon Shokubai America, Inc. (NAII) has fewer employees than the Sodium organic compounds, not specified 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
2024 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.5 3.2 1 2 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TN · Chattanooga

552 Sodium organic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, 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 Momentive Performance Materials - Texas City 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lanxess Mapleton 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worthington Biochemical Corp 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR REG Danville LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE L & H Gin 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallsdale-Powell Utility District (Operations Building) 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Construction Company LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinard Civil Contracting 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Platinum Roofing, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hussung Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Irrigation Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schottland Family YMCA 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CPAI Alpine HSK 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Systems Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katy Plant 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Producers Chemical Company 32 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.