Industry profile · NAICS 424690
Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers
Workplace injury rates across 1,020 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 1,020
- Employers
- 2.7
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- BLS benchmark
- 5,310
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers average 2.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.2 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.
- 2.7
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 2.2
- BLS national benchmark
- 1,020
- employers reporting
- 5,310
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals
The Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 424690) encompasses 1,020 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 5,310 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 2.7 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 11 of 22| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Praxair Distribution Inc. | Columbia, SC | B | 1.4 |
| Linde Gas & Equpment Inc - Lenexa | Lenexa, KS | B | 1.4 |
| Waxahachie SSC 1I | Waxahachie, TX | B | 1.4 |
| St. Louis (S142) | St. Louis, MO | B | 1.4 |
| Charlotte CT | Charlotte, NC | B | 1.4 |
| Midland, TX Sales Office | Midland, TX | B | 1.4 |
| Hattiesburg-Plt | Hattiesburg, MS | B | 1.4 |
| Jefferson Distribution | Jefferson, GA | B | 1.4 |
| Quanta BioDesign, Ltd. | Plain City, OH | B | 1.4 |
| Hillyard Co. - Hutchinson | Hutchinson, MN | B | 1.3 |
| Augusta Distribution | Augusta, GA | B | 1.3 |
| La Porte Distribution | La Porte, TX | B | 1.3 |
| Wooster Operations | Wooster, OH | B | 1.3 |
| Hillyard Co. - New York | Victor, NY | B | 1.3 |
| Facility 14 | Tualatin, OR | B | 1.3 |
| Odessa 0909 | Odessa, TX | B | 1.3 |
| Dallas DA 0905 | Dallas, TX | B | 1.3 |
| Harrisburg HB | Middletown, PA | B | 1.3 |
| Earlbeck Gases & Technologies Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | B | 1.3 |
| Greensboro Jamestown 0964 | Jamestown, NC | B | 1.3 |
| Encore Gas & Supply Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | B | 1.3 |
| Greenfield Global USA Inc. 58 Vale Rd | Brookfield, CT | B | 1.3 |
| Islandia | Islandia, NY | B | 1.3 |
| Slatersville, RI | Slatersville, RI | B | 1.3 |
| Brentwood | High Point, NC | B | 1.3 |
| Morton Salt Fairless Hills | Fairless Hills, PA | B | 1.3 |
| N Las Vegas | N Las Vegas, NV | B | 1.3 |
| Redwood City RO 0840 | Redwood City, CA | B | 1.3 |
| Plainfield PN | Plainfield, IL | B | 1.3 |
| Praxair Distribution Inc. Detroit | Detroit, MI | B | 1.3 |
| Hillyard Co. - Inc/Office | St. Joseph, MO | B | 1.3 |
| Phoenix-45th Ave | Phoenix, AZ | B | 1.3 |
| Morrisville MV | Morrisville, PA | B | 1.3 |
| Hillyard Minneapolis | Minneapolis, MN | B | 1.2 |
| Houston 771 Brisbane 0876 | Houston, TX | B | 1.2 |
| Airgas Refrigerants, Inc. - Long Island City | Long Island City, NY | B | 1.2 |
| Chem One Ltd | Houston, TX | B | 1.2 |
| LG&E North Freeway Houston | Houston, TX | B | 1.2 |
| Great Lakes Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | B | 1.2 |
| Charkit Chemical Company | Norwalk, CT | B | 1.2 |
| The Gorilla Glue Company - South | Cincinnati, OH | B | 1.2 |
| Altoona AT | Altoona, PA | B | 1.2 |
| St Louis SS | Berkeley, MO | B | 1.2 |
| Visalia 0846 | Visalia, CA | B | 1.2 |
| Kingsport 440 (S199) | Kingsport, TN | B | 1.2 |
| Salt Lake City SL | Salt Lake City, UT | B | 1.2 |
| North Kansas City | North Kansas City, MO | B | 1.2 |
| Nexeo Solutions - Carson | Carson, CA | B | 1.2 |
| Delta Companies Group - Baytown | Baytown, TX | B | 1.2 |
| Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | B | 1.2 |
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