Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Water Guard

Wilson, NC · ~28 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water Guard runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Water Guard: 9.4 TCR = 425% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water Guard safety composite

Water Guard 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−19.0

2016→2023

Water Guard injury rate improved

Water Guard's TCR fell 19.0 from 22.3 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 22.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=22.3 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Wilson, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 425% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #21/22
  • PHOTO Hasa Inc. - Spring V…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hasa Inc. - Spring Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water Guard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water Guard averages 9.4 TCR (425% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Water Guard TCR series: 2016=22.3 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=3 · 2020=3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Water Guard falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in North Carolina.

Water Guard (28 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Water Guard
Water Guard (28 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Water Guard has fewer employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au 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
2023 3.2 3.2 0 1 0
2022 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 12.3 12.3 2 2 0
2017 21.5 21.5 7 0 0
2016 22.3 22.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · NC · Wilson

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Wilson, NC · 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 Hasa Inc. - Spring Valley 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corechem - Knoxville 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seacole-CRC, LLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Air Solutions- Denver, CO 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE H & D Farms, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson (BAMG) 1,797 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Wilson 1,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kidde Aerospace & Defense 1,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP Wilson Medical Center 907 FTE
NAT-TCR County Jails #1 & #2 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR VRS Tucson, AZ 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Section 8 Valley 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Avantara Mountain View 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 403 Carver 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carnegie Location 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southland Truck Group, LLC - Lake Charles 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace Vacaville 28 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: 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.