Paints (except artist's) manufacturing · Oregon

WVCO Chem Mfg

Eugene, OR · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WVCO Chem Mfg runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paints (except artist's) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

WVCO Chem Mfg: 10.9 TCR = 332% of Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WVCO Chem Mfg safety composite

WVCO Chem Mfg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

WVCO Chem Mfg: 6.9 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2017

WVCO Chem Mfg's TCR rose 8.2 from 6.9 in 2016 to 15.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Eugene, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 332% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO IFS Coatings, Inc. (…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IFS Coatings, Inc. (Oklahoma) (0.1 TCR gap)

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WVCO Chem Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WVCO Chem Mfg averages 10.9 TCR (332% of the Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WVCO Chem Mfg TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=15 · BLS 3.3

Where WVCO Chem Mfg falls in its industry

530 Paints (except artist's) manuf establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Paints (except artist's) manuf employers in Oregon.

WVCO Chem Mfg (44 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 WVCO Chem Mfg
WVCO Chem Mfg (44 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

WVCO Chem Mfg has fewer employees than the Paints (except artist's) manufacturing 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
2017 15.0 7.5 6 0 0
2016 6.9 4.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · OR · Eugene

530 Paints (except artist's) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 466 employers in Eugene, OR · 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 IFS Coatings, Inc. (Oklahoma) 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tandem Products Inc. Blooming Prairie 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alsip Plant 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yellow Creek Coating Services 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Snake River Produce Co., LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Farms, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACW Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Wolf Vineyards, Inc 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR MATT KNIGHT ARENA 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hult Center for the Performing Arts 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG PHOR Clinics 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHMC at University District 564 FTE
NAT-TCR Enterprise Alamo National 45F8 45F9 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #70 (Spokane Valley, WA (East)) 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Stateline Hauling 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Anita 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Chillicothe Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland Nursing and Rehab LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insys Manufacturing, LLC 44 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.