Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Tennessee

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis

Memphis, TN · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis safety composite

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−4.5

2016→2018

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis injury rate improved

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.9 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.9 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Little Rock
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Rock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Industrial product finishes an employers in Tennessee.

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis (80 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis
Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis (80 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Vertrauen Chemie Solutions, Inc. Memphis has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2016 7.9 6.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · TN · Memphis

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, 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 Little Rock 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CROSSFIELD PRODUCTS 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TST - 210 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TST - 515 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric (Williamson County Office) 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardaway Construction Corp 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christman Southeast Constructors, LLC - Knoxville 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Location 1 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodrich FL - Jacksonville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Reading (Parea) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Pottstown 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-Pd-Hpn-White Plains-Pd 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Litchfield 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doritex Corp. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hot Springs (Arhot) 80 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: 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.