Surface active agents manufacturing · North Carolina

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord

Concord, NC · ~20 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord safety composite

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord held a steady TCR band

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Concord, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Southern Chemical an…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Chemical and Textile (0.3 TCR gap)

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HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=5 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Surface active agents manufact employers in North Carolina.

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord (20 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord
HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord (20 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

HeiQ ChemTex, Inc. Concord has fewer employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 12.6 12.6 2 0 0
2020 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · NC · Concord

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, NC · 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 Southern Chemical and Textile 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Chemical, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lavender 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STANDARD PURIFICATION 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR Vortex Construction 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hooper DSC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gehring Tricot Corp. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Buferd Company dBa Unity Manufacturing 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skagit Farmers Supply Oak Harbor Country Store 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntingdon Valley 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE CEC Steel 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE mcavoy brick 2019 20 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.