Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC

Cleveland, TN · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC: 1.1 TCR = 50% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC safety composite

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−4.4

2017→2020

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC injury rate improved

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Cleveland, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/16
  • PHOTO Hillyard New York
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillyard New York (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Chemical Co. LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Chemical Co. LLC averages 1.1 TCR (50% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Specialty Chemical Co. LLC falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 16 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Tennessee.

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC (23 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Specialty Chemical Co. LLC
Specialty Chemical Co. LLC (23 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Specialty Chemical Co. LLC has fewer employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler median and a lower 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TN · Cleveland

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 157 employers in Cleveland, 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 Hillyard New York 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weatherford, OK 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Co. - Lancaster 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harwick-Akron 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manchester DREMC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDE - Metro Nashville District Energy System 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avenue Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLEVELAND PACKERS 6,804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Cleveland 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whirlpool 1,544 FTE
NAT-TCR Minneapolis SE Storage 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Paramus NJ Store 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Great HealthWorks, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corona, CA- ENG. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Topeka Clubhouse 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverview Ridge Personal Care 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeler Trucking (Springfield) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Install & Maintenance 23 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.