Distribution of natural gas · Delaware

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street

Dover, DE · ~96 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street runs at 467% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution of natural gas workplace, earning a grade F.

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street: 5.6 TCR = 467% of Distribution of natural gas BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street safety composite

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street: 2.4 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2017

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street's TCR rose 6.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Dover, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 467% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO CAZ-Pinnacle Peak Op…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAZ-Pinnacle Peak Operations 0042-FAC52 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street averages 5.6 TCR (467% of the Distribution of natural gas BLS benchmark).

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

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=8.8 · BLS 1.2

Where Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street falls in its industry

1,153 Distribution of natural gas establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Distribution of natural gas employers in Delaware.

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street (96 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street
Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street (96 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Chesapeake Utilities - Queen Street has more employees than the Distribution of natural gas median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 8.8 8.8 9 0 0
2016 2.4 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · DE · Dover

1,153 Distribution of natural gas employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 138 employers in Dover, DE · 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 CAZ-Pinnacle Peak Operations 0042-FAC52 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA ANA BASE - 15 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alb Electric Service Center 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eversource - New Bedford Gas 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAI-0034-0034-00817 FAC-00817-BEAR-DE 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE DOVER_1361099 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Cuba Center 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE IRON HILL BREWERY- WILMINGTON 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kent General Hospital 3,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000045 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - RODNEY 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000047 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - GATEWAY 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000222 Dover Janitorial 1,028 FTE
NAT-TCR Grid Solutions : CS NAM - North America Services (US Only) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Chief Buildings Rensselaer 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NorthChase Nursing & Rehab 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Irving, Texas Container Graphics Corporation 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S East Hartford, Ct 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acuity Brands Lighting MWDC 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3311 Capital Boulevard 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praters 96 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.

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