Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Chester

Chester, PA · ~58 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chester: 5.5 TCR = 250% of Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester safety composite

Chester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Chester: 3.0 → 29.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 29.9 TCR · DART/TCR 5.43× in 2024

Chester's TCR rose 27.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 29.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 5.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Chester, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 250% of ind

  • DART 29.9 DART
  • RANK #26/38
  • PHOTO 10355 S Orange Ave S…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10355 S Orange Ave Ste B (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester averages 5.5 TCR (250% of the Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chester TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=29.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Chester falls in its industry

853 Plumbing and heating valves me establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 38 Plumbing and heating valves me employers in Pennsylvania.

Chester (58 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester
Chester (58 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chester has more employees than the Plumbing and heating valves merchant who median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 29.9 29.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.3 1.1 4 0 0
2019 6.3 5.4 7 0 0
2018 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2016 3.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · PA · Chester

853 Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 45 employers in Chester, PA · 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 10355 S Orange Ave Ste B 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply New England 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferguson Enterprises LLC: WI West Allis - 11406 West Rogers Street 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joplin Supply Company 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menu Mate Mushroom Farm 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE CannTech 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PA Location 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moyer's Hatchery 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Philadelphia Casino Racetrack 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Access Network 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG PHL/HQ 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG HQ 680 FTE
NAT-TCR Ramey Construction Company, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S&W Electrical Contractors, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Max J. Kuney Company 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1041P - Grand Rapids Production 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE JAX 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colgate- Hodges, SC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE ServiceMaster DSI Maple Grove 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE HWC Home Works Corporation 58 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, 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.