Polyethylene resins manufacturing · Texas

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers

Alvin, TX · ~64 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polyethylene resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Polyethylene resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers safety composite

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers held a steady TCR band

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Alvin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/76
  • PHOTO Amsty Hanging Rock
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amsty Hanging Rock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Polyethylene resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers falls in its industry

644 Polyethylene resins manufactur establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 76 Polyethylene resins manufactur employers in Texas.

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers (64 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers
Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers (64 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Equistar Chemicals, LP (LyondellBasell) - Chocolate Bayou Polymers has fewer employees than the Polyethylene resins manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · TX · Alvin

644 Polyethylene resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 61 employers in Alvin, 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 Amsty Hanging Rock 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ineos Styrolution - Decatur, AL Site 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Celanese Bishop 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allnex USA Inc 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mill Creek 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Palestine Hatchery 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT HACTCHERY 2 & 3 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TGNR East Texas LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - INEOS Chocolate Bayou 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR JFSNA at Ineos Redstone Project 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX1 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chocolate Bayou Works 565 FTE
NAT-TCR Fayetteville NC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyrotek Corporate Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - Hillsboro, OR 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR F. L. Crane & Sons, Inc. Memphis 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Red Oak L.L.C. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westview-Stratford Transportation 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7 Contracting Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Diego Association of Governments - Toll Operations Center 64 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, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.