TCR, interpreted
Above average
3.0 avg TCR
Industry profile · NAICS 424950
Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers
Workplace injury rates across 54 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 45 establishments with a credible rate.
- 54
- Employers
- 3.0
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 2.2
- BLS benchmark
- 477
- Injuries (all)
The industry picture
The 45 rated employers in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers average 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.
- 3.0
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 2.2
- BLS national benchmark
- 45
- rated employers
- 477
- recordable injuries (all)
ITA inventory (54) and injury totals cover every reporting establishment; the average TCR is the rated subset only. Corpus rank matches /rankings/most-dangerous-industries (≥100 rated employers). BLS IIF is a separate survey population, see Methodology → Three Populations.
What Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals
The Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 424950) encompasses 54 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 477 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window. The industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year is computed on the 45 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology). 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 3.0 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 Paints (except artists') 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
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Nationwide industries with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers: nearest NAICS cohorts by rated-subset average TCR and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-industry neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest industries by rated-subset Total Case Rate (3.0 here).
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Similar employer inventory
Nearest industries by reporting employer count (54 here).
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average injury rate (TCR) in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers?
Across 45 OSHA-reporting establishments with a credible rate, Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers averages 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers per year (Total Case Rate, 2016-2024). The BLS national benchmark for this NAICS code is 2.2.
How does Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers compare with other industries nationally?
Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers has fewer than 100 rated employers, below the case-volume floor for the national industry ranking.
How many employers report in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers?
54 establishments report to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application under this NAICS code, of which 45 have a credible enough filing history to carry a rated average TCR.
Working in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers?
This sector averages 3.0 against a BLS benchmark of 2.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.
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Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.
Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers Safety FAQ
What is the average injury rate (TCR) in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers?
Across 45 OSHA-reporting establishments with a credible rate, Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers averages 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers per year (Total Case Rate, 2016-2024). The BLS national benchmark for this NAICS code is 2.2.
How does Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers compare with other industries nationally?
Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers has fewer than 100 rated employers, below the case-volume floor for the national industry ranking.
How many employers report in Paints (except artists') merchant wholesalers?
54 establishments report to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application under this NAICS code, of which 45 have a credible enough filing history to carry a rated average TCR.