Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc.

Kearny, NJ · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 27% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. safety composite

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2024

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Kearny, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 27% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #3/21
  • PHOTO Facility 6
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Facility 6 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (27% 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

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 21 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in New Jersey.

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc.
Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Veckridge Chemical Co, Inc. 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
2024 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · NJ · Kearny

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 87 employers in Kearny, NJ · 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 Facility 6 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peter Cremer North America - EW 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tilley Distribution 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elmendorf 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey Natural Gas - Atlantic Highlands 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Squan Wireless 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracts unlimited 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7326_16863 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335980-DVD BLDG NJ P&DC 1,456 FTE
CITY-NEAR DOMINICK V DANIELS_1441053 1,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5447 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335978-GREATER NEWARK NJ P&DC 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Cruisin' Community Transit Connection, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aperion Care Marion 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mulberry Gardens Memory Care 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Duncan Operations Center 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 055 Kent WA Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Har-Inc-Harrisburg Juvenile Treat 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Construction Services Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMF Raleigh, INC 32 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.