Titanium dioxide manufacturing · New Jersey

Equistar Chemicals LP

Edison, NJ · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Equistar Chemicals LP runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Titanium dioxide manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Equistar Chemicals LP: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Titanium dioxide manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equistar Chemicals LP safety composite

Equistar Chemicals LP scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Equistar Chemicals LP: 1.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Equistar Chemicals LP's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.1 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Edison, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO PQ Corporation- Rahway
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PQ Corporation- Rahway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Equistar Chemicals LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equistar Chemicals LP averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Titanium dioxide manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Equistar Chemicals LP TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Equistar Chemicals LP falls in its industry

418 Titanium dioxide manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Titanium dioxide manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Equistar Chemicals LP (83 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Equistar Chemicals LP
Equistar Chemicals LP (83 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Equistar Chemicals LP has more employees than the Titanium dioxide manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · NJ · Edison

418 Titanium dioxide manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 227 employers in Edison, NJ · 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 PQ Corporation- Rahway 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones-Hamilton Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Water Care LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvay USA Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Shrewsbury Field Ops 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jottan, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Totowa NJ 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Armistead Mechanical-New Jersey 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR JFK MEDICAL CENTER 3,904 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anthony M Yalensics / JFK 3,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LGA9 2,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : LGA9 2,437 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Marriott 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-San Antonio 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avi Resort and Casino 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avon Protection Systems, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Groot South 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veransa Group Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little Rock Embassy Suites 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE FirePro Tech, LLC 83 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. 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.