Aluminum chloride manufacturing · New York

Vanchlor Company Inc.

Lockport, NY · ~21 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanchlor Company Inc. runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum chloride manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Vanchlor Company Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Aluminum chloride manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanchlor Company Inc. safety composite

Vanchlor Company Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2024

Vanchlor Company Inc. injury rate improved

Vanchlor Company Inc.'s TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Lockport, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO Mason Corporation
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mason Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanchlor Company Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanchlor Company Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Aluminum chloride manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vanchlor Company Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Vanchlor Company Inc. falls in its industry

418 Aluminum chloride manufacturin establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 Aluminum chloride manufacturin employers in New York.

Vanchlor Company Inc. (21 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Vanchlor Company Inc.
Vanchlor Company Inc. (21 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Vanchlor Company Inc. has fewer employees than the Aluminum chloride manufacturing 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2019 10.1 5.0 2 0 0
2018 9.4 4.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · NY · Lockport

418 Aluminum chloride manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lockport, NY · 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 Mason Corporation 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sulfco, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS CORP 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hasa Inc. - Saugus 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chambers Valley Farms, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mulligan Family Farm LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dziedzic Farms LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Hollow Dairy LLC 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Lockport Components 1,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Components Holdings- Lockport, NY 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Avenue 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2107 367 FTE
NAT-TCR H.E. Wright & Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WVUH Chestnut Ridge Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FoodTown #007 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USF at Atlantic Intercoastal Water Way 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Crestview FL-Eglin AFB (3742) 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE XAG 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.R. Meadows of Pennsylvania 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE XVN 21 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, 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.