Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents) manufacturing · Ohio

Pilot Chemical Middletown

Middletown, OH · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilot Chemical Middletown runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pilot Chemical Middletown: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilot Chemical Middletown safety composite

Pilot Chemical Middletown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Pilot Chemical Middletown: 3.1 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2021

Pilot Chemical Middletown's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.1 in 2019 to 7.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Middletown, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO K2 Pure Solutions
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K2 Pure Solutions (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pilot Chemical Middletown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilot Chemical Middletown averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pilot Chemical Middletown TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilot Chemical Middletown falls in its industry

66 Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-act establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-act employers in Ohio.

Pilot Chemical Middletown (61 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pilot Chemical Middletown
Pilot Chemical Middletown (61 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Pilot Chemical Middletown has fewer employees than the Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2021 7.4 6.0 5 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 3.1 2.1 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · OH · Middletown

66 Emulsifiers (i.e., surface-active agents) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, 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 K2 Pure Solutions 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilot Chemical Company - Lockland 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DHI COOPERATIVE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Technologies International 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Operations Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIN 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Jimmie K Green 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Office #01 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mauser USA LLC-Plastics 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AllCoat Technology, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tewksbury Treatment Center 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wbn 202 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nuss Truck & Equipment- Eau Claire 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7190-Enphg-Chatham University 61 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: 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.