OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCHANT WHOLESALERS · North Carolina

REN498

Charlotte, NC · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

REN498 runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCHANT WHOLESALERS workplace, earning a grade F.

REN498: 8.2 TCR = 375% of OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCHANT WHOLESALERS BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

REN498 safety composite

REN498 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

REN498: 3.0 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

REN498's TCR rose 10.4 from 3.0 in 2023 to 13.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 375% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO Kittanning
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kittanning (0.0 TCR gap)

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REN498 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows REN498 averages 8.2 TCR (375% of the OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCHANT WHOLESALERS BLS benchmark).

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

REN498 TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=13.4 · BLS 2.2

Where REN498 falls in its industry

766 OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PROD establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PROD employers in North Carolina.

REN498 (26 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate REN498
REN498 (26 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

REN498 has fewer employees than the OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCH 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 13.4 9.0 3 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · NC · Charlotte

766 OTHER CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MERCHANT WHOLESALERS employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Kittanning 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seeler Industries 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barton Solvents, Inc. DM 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wausau Chemical Corporation 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. A. Wood Farms, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yarbrough Farms LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH LNM- EST 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Bay Shore 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LA South 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maksn - Kingston 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Building 3 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charlottesville - Facilities Maintenance 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Palmdale 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bbs - Schenectady Truss 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Trinity Prep School Fac Mgt 26 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.