Wetting agents manufacturing · Georgia

Southern Chemical and Textile

Dalton, GA · ~26 workers · 3 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

Southern Chemical and Textile runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wetting agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Chemical and Textile: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Wetting agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Chemical and Textile safety composite

Southern Chemical and Textile scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.8

2022→2024

Southern Chemical and Textile injury rate improved

Southern Chemical and Textile's TCR fell 13.8 from 13.8 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Colonial Chemical, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colonial Chemical, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern Chemical and Textile in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Chemical and Textile averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Wetting agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Chemical and Textile TCR series: 2022=13.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Chemical and Textile falls in its industry

66 Wetting agents manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Wetting agents manufacturing employers in Georgia.

Southern Chemical and Textile (26 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Southern Chemical and Textile
Southern Chemical and Textile (26 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Southern Chemical and Textile has fewer employees than the Wetting agents manufacturing 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.8 13.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · GA · Dalton

66 Wetting agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Colonial Chemical, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dystar Dalton 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPL Food Chatel Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Pine Grove, LA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Pride Athens Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Logging & Timber Co LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Natural Soda LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR URS Newark 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AAA Club Alliance OKC ERS Warehouse 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dysart 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allesco Industries, Inc., dba Eastern Screw 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phenova 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hil-Man Automation LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 224 Menomonie Animal Nutrition 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, 2022. 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.