Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) manufacturing · Ohio

VWR International - Aurora

Aurora, OH · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VWR International - Aurora runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

VWR International - Aurora: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VWR International - Aurora safety composite

VWR International - Aurora scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

VWR International - Aurora held a steady TCR band

VWR International - Aurora's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.0 TCR.

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Aurora, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/29
  • PHOTO HoneywellAL37
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HoneywellAL37 (0.1 TCR gap)

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VWR International - Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VWR International - Aurora averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VWR International - Aurora TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where VWR International - Aurora falls in its industry

418 Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hyd establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 29 Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hyd employers in Ohio.

VWR International - Aurora (35 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 VWR International - Aurora
VWR International - Aurora (35 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

VWR International - Aurora has fewer employees than the Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) ma 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · OH · Aurora

418 Caustic soda (i.e., sodium hydroxide) 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 HoneywellAL37 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingleside Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albemarle 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemical Sout 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Location 1 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Croton Pullet 3 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 1 35 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 Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont - Community Support Includes Recreation and Human Services 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogers Group, Inc 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wade Electric, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ekstrom Nursery Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart Office 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brownfield Rehabilitation and Care Center 35 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.