Polyurethane resins manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Esstech, Inc.

Essington, PA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esstech, Inc. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Polyurethane resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Esstech, Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Polyurethane resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esstech, Inc. safety composite

Esstech, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2021→2024

Esstech, Inc. injury rate improved

Esstech, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.8 from 7.4 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Essington, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #28/37
  • PHOTO Hendren Plastics, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hendren Plastics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esstech, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esstech, Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Polyurethane resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Esstech, Inc. TCR series: 2021=7.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Esstech, Inc. falls in its industry

644 Polyurethane resins manufactur establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 37 Polyurethane resins manufactur employers in Pennsylvania.

Esstech, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Esstech, Inc.
Esstech, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Esstech, Inc. has fewer employees than the Polyurethane resins manufacturing median and a higher 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 7.4 3.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · PA · Essington

644 Polyurethane resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 10 employers in Essington, 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 Hendren Plastics, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Region : Alexandria 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dymax Oligomers & Coatings LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mexichem Chloro-Vinyl, Avon Lake, Ohio 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNB Mushroom, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASA Mushroom LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Conard-Pyle Co. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -PA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clarion Hotel & Conference Center 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Bean Technologies Corporation PHL 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1-ACI-Philadelphia 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quinn Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-TCR LB Manufacturing 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L.W. Schneider, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wright's Scrap Metals 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkay Interior Systems 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Windsor 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enhanced Manufacturing Solutions, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton House of Sugar Hill 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Panama City 6300 West Bay Pkwy 40 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, 2021. 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.