Chemical Manufacturing

Industry Summary

As of the last reported data from 2015, there are 806,060 workers employed at 17,083 Chemical Manufacturing establishements in the United States. The industry is slowly growing, adding 5,856 jobs in the 12 months between 2014 and 2015. On average, each business employs 47 workers. Over the past 5 years this industry has recorded an accident rate of over 2 times (0% more) the average for the Industry.

• Most Common Violations
• Recent Accident Reports

OSHA investigators arrived in Fort Worth, TX on Tuesday, February 19th 2019 and began an accident investigation at Tokai Carbon Cb, Ltd.. A 20 year old man working as a was killed on the job when the

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OSHA ID113780.015

Accident Date2019-02-18

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt 9:30 a.m. on February 18, 2019, an employee was standing in a work area near a vehicle. The employee was later found crushed beneath the rear tires of a trailer. He was killed.

On Tuesday, January 15th 2019 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Hayden, ID which had occured previously at Unitech Composites, Inc.. A 59 year old had been killed when the

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OSHA ID113001.015

Accident Date2019-01-14

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt 12:15 p.m. on January 14, 2019, an employee was having a smoke break and collapsed. The employee appeared to have suffered a heart attack and died.

The accident investigation below was opened on Tuesday, October 16th 2018 by OSHA representitives in Saint Louis, MO after learning of an incident at Sigma-Aldrich which had occured on Tuesday, October 9th 2018. A 54 year old Machinery maintenance occupation had been killed when the employee was found unresponsive at worksite

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OSHA ID110081.015

Accident Date2018-10-09

Accident DegreeFatality

NarrativeAt 12:45 p.m. on October 9, 2018, an employee was found with his upper body leaning into a compartment door over the autoclave and was unresponsive.