Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing · Ohio

VWR Chemicals Aurora

Aurora, OH · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VWR Chemicals Aurora runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

VWR Chemicals Aurora: 8.0 TCR = 241% of Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VWR Chemicals Aurora safety composite

VWR Chemicals Aurora scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−3.1

2016→2017

VWR Chemicals Aurora injury rate improved

VWR Chemicals Aurora's TCR fell 3.1 from 9.5 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.5 · 2017=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Aurora, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 241% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #44/44
  • PHOTO Hampford Research Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hampford Research Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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VWR Chemicals Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VWR Chemicals Aurora averages 8.0 TCR (241% of the Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VWR Chemicals Aurora TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where VWR Chemicals Aurora falls in its industry

552 Acids, organic, not specified establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 44 Acids, organic, not specified employers in Ohio.

VWR Chemicals Aurora (27 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate VWR Chemicals Aurora
VWR Chemicals Aurora (27 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

VWR Chemicals Aurora has fewer employees than the Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2016 9.5 9.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · OH · Aurora

552 Acids, organic, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 64 employers in Aurora, OH · 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 Hampford Research Inc 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR D-Mark Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Biodiesel Oahu 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pharmachem Laboratories LLC 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Creque Farms Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Pond Gardens Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wen Mar Farms, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 2 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora, OH - 05 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3250 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3250 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR PartsSource, Inc. 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Interstate Sealant & Concrete Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1075 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Schult Richfield 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum America SCS 999 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE U.S office- Sales & Distribution- Lewmar Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Scrap Management PC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0346 - Hialeah, Fl 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0296 - Spokane, Wa 27 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: 2017, 2016. 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.