Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Specialty Gases Inc.

Name: Specialty Gases Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Louisville, KY · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Specialty Gases Inc. runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Specialty Gases Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 83% of Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Gases Inc. safety composite

Specialty Gases Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Specialty Gases Inc.: 0.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.64× in 2023

Specialty Gases Inc.'s TCR rose 6.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 83% of ind

DART 4.8 DART
RANK #8/24
PHOTO Ryan Herco Flow Solu…
BOOK 6y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ryan Herco Flow Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Specialty Gases Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (83% of the Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Specialty Gases Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Specialty Gases Inc. falls in its industry

911 Welding machinery and equipmen establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 24 Welding machinery and equipmen employers in Kentucky.

Specialty Gases Inc. (68 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Specialty Gases Inc. has more employees than the Welding machinery and equipment merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023	6.4	4.8	4
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	1.6	1.6	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.0	3.0	2
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · KY · Louisville

911 Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ryan Herco Flow Solutions	BURBANK, CA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6202 - LYORK-TECH-SEAL LITTLE YORK	HOUSTON, TX	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Briggs Equipment Mobile	MOBILE, AL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JF Acquisitions, LLC d/b/a JF Petroleum Group: Columbia, SC	COLUMBIA, SC	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Richgrove Tobacco	HOPKINSVILLE	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation	PADUCAH	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mason Structure	LEXINGTON	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	R. Brian Morrison	ASHLAND	68 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Public Schools	Louisville	18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KYGRA - WORLDPORT	Louisville	11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WORLDPORT (KYGRA)	Louisville	9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KTKY TRUCK	Louisville	8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR	8807710-Abercrombie & Fitch	New Albany, OH	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vista Grande Villa	Jackson, MI	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Geo-Technology Associates, Inc.	Abingdon, MD	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Union Supply Group, Inc. - Corporate Headquarters	Dallas, TX	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	All American Maintenance Inc	Colorado Springs, CO	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	8807855-Trek Bicycle Inc	Swedenboro, NJ	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rehab Builders, Inc.	Winston-Salem, NC	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Printful, Inc. (Coppell, Texas)	Coppell, TX	68 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.