Methyl salicylate manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant

Oil City, PA · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Methyl salicylate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Methyl salicylate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant safety composite

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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)
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant held a steady TCR band

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Oil City, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/34
  • PHOTO OH100 Columbus Chemi…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OH100 Columbus Chemical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Methyl salicylate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant falls in its industry

552 Methyl salicylate manufacturin establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 34 Methyl salicylate manufacturin employers in Pennsylvania.

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant (33 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant
Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant (33 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC, Oil City Plant has fewer employees than the Methyl salicylate manufacturing 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · PA · Oil City

552 Methyl salicylate manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 16 employers in Oil City, PA · 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 OH100 Columbus Chemical 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. - Executive Office 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arclin USA - Springfield 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NZNA - Franklinton 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electralloy 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakwood Heights of Presbyterian SeniorCare 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oil City Tube Division 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Webco 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Care Rome 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3776 Family Fare (Harrison St, Omaha, Ne) 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2967-NH115 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (HOU-6330) 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pine Ridge of Hayes 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meridian Auto Wrecking ST10 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 247480-South Hadley Po 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 242856-Gardner Po 33 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.