Installation of photovoltaic panels · New York

Chester, NY

Chester, NY · ~61 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester, NY runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Installation of photovoltaic panels workplace, earning a grade D.

Chester, NY: 5.5 TCR = 196% of Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester, NY safety composite

Chester, NY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Chester, NY: 6.4 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Chester, NY's TCR rose 3.2 from 6.4 in 2020 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Chester, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 196% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #203/252
  • PHOTO GRID Alternatives GLA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GRID Alternatives GLA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester, NY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester, NY averages 5.5 TCR (196% of the Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS benchmark).

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

Chester, NY TCR series: 2020=6.4 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Chester, NY falls in its industry

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic p establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #203 safest of 252 Installation of photovoltaic p employers in New York.

Chester, NY (61 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester, NY
Chester, NY (61 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Chester, NY has fewer employees than the Installation of photovoltaic panels median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 9.7 9.7 8 0 0
2023 5.2 3.1 5 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2020 6.4 6.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NY · Chester

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic panels employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 26 employers in Chester, NY · 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 GRID Alternatives GLA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sage Technology Solutions Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FH Hamblet Electric 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AC Electrical Systems, Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE W. 42nd Street Substation 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Building Company 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lehigh Construction Group, Inc. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oriskany Falls Construction 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amscan 571 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Chester, NY (PDC) 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Chester Plaza 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR CoachUSA 216 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0215 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jaguar Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LaFayette MCC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarmil 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southlake 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmetto - 8095 McLarin Road 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alburtis - 8801 Congdon Hill Drive Suite 1 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77DOR 61 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.