Fuel Dealer · New Jersey

AmeriGas - Chester NJ

Chester, NJ · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AmeriGas - Chester NJ runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fuel Dealer workplace, earning a grade F.

AmeriGas - Chester NJ: 10.4 TCR = 306% of Fuel Dealer BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AmeriGas - Chester NJ safety composite

AmeriGas - Chester NJ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

AmeriGas - Chester NJ: 8.7 → 23.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.21× in 2021

AmeriGas - Chester NJ's TCR rose 14.3 from 8.7 in 2016 to 23.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Chester, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 306% of ind

  • DART 23.0 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO SHAFFERS BOTTLED GAS…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHAFFERS BOTTLED GAS, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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AmeriGas - Chester NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AmeriGas - Chester NJ averages 10.4 TCR (306% of the Fuel Dealer BLS benchmark).

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

AmeriGas - Chester NJ TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=23 · BLS 3.4

Where AmeriGas - Chester NJ falls in its industry

366 Fuel Dealer establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Fuel Dealer employers in New Jersey.

AmeriGas - Chester NJ (30 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AmeriGas - Chester NJ
AmeriGas - Chester NJ (30 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

AmeriGas - Chester NJ has fewer employees than the Fuel Dealer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 23.0 23.0 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.7 13.7 4 0 0
2018 8.5 2.8 3 0 0
2017 8.5 5.7 3 0 0
2016 8.7 5.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · NJ · Chester

366 Fuel Dealer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 6 employers in Chester, NJ · 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 SHAFFERS BOTTLED GAS, INC 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6000-DRC-BIDDEFORD 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sail Energy LLC DBA Tower Energy 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region Oil - Dover 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Washington TWP MUA 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Martin Group 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1127 - BELFOR Northern New Jersey NJ 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Newark 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Chester 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester (Welkind) 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR R & R Construction Co., Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Drury Plaza Hotel - Nashville Downtown 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Talladega Terminal 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Bend - Streets & Fleet 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Gardens Fort Collins 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Balgas - Fort Myers, FL 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Administration 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xuron Corp 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richert Lumber Company, Inc/ 30 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.