Ethylene oxide manufacturing · Texas

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport

Pasadena, TX · ~122 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ethylene oxide manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Ethylene oxide manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport safety composite

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Pasadena, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/103
  • PHOTO Covestro Pittsburgh
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covestro Pittsburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Equistar Chemicals, Bayport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equistar Chemicals, Bayport averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Ethylene oxide manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Equistar Chemicals, Bayport falls in its industry

552 Ethylene oxide manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 103 Ethylene oxide manufacturing employers in Texas.

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport (122 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Equistar Chemicals, Bayport
Equistar Chemicals, Bayport (122 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Equistar Chemicals, Bayport has more employees than the Ethylene oxide manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 0.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TX · Pasadena

552 Ethylene oxide manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 385 employers in Pasadena, TX · 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 Covestro Pittsburgh 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AR070 Crossett Chemical 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MilliporeSigma - EWING 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Borger Plant 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Tools, Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Benito SC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Operations Center-119 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amarillo Technical Center-122 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSC Group 4,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroleum Service Corporation 3,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR JVIC 3,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Houston 2,015 FTE
NAT-TCR 104290 - Seminole Combined-Cycle Facility 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MassDEP Boston 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Medical Management Corporation - Va 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hitachi Astemo Greenfield LLC 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hubbard (Walpole) 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens at Blue Ridge 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE HMP Jay Group 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Endress + Hauser Automation Instrumentation 122 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.