Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

West Chester

West Chester, OH · ~75 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Chester runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

West Chester: 1.7 TCR = 76% of Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Chester safety composite

West Chester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−2.4

2016→2024

West Chester injury rate improved

West Chester's TCR fell 2.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423620 · West Chester, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Clarke Distribution …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clarke Distribution Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Chester averages 1.7 TCR (76% of the Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

West Chester TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where West Chester falls in its industry

91 Housewares, gas and electric, establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Housewares, gas and electric, employers in Ohio.

West Chester (75 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate West Chester
West Chester (75 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 2.6

West Chester has more employees than the Housewares, gas and electric, merchant w median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2022 3.9 1.0 4 0 0
2021 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.7 0.9 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423620 · OH · West Chester

91 Housewares, gas and electric, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 205 employers in West Chester, 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 Clarke Distribution Corporation 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merc Acquisitions, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR APLG El Paso 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New York Manhattan 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bardshar Wholesale 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newark Service Center 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Midwest (Columbus) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirk Bros Co, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lithko Contracting, LLC 2,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Chester Hospital LLC 1,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornerstone Services Group 1,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio DC2 939 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Homecrest House 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Todd Wenzel Buick GMC of Davison 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Belvidere 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Robertson's Hams 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Furst-McNess Company (Lodi) 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISD #100 Wrenshall 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlson MetroCenter YMCA 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 7 75 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, 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.