Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives · Pennsylvania

Hero BX

Erie, PA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hero BX runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives workplace, earning a grade F.

Hero BX: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hero BX safety composite

Hero BX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Hero BX: 6.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2018

Hero BX's TCR rose 1.5 from 6.0 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #32/34
  • PHOTO Chemol Company Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemol Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hero BX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hero BX averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS benchmark).

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

Hero BX TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hero BX falls in its industry

552 Transesterification of vegetab establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 34 Transesterification of vegetab employers in Pennsylvania.

Hero BX (47 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Hero BX
Hero BX (47 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hero BX has fewer employees than the Transesterification of vegetable oils to median and a higher 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
2018 7.5 3.7 4 0 0
2017 7.5 3.7 4 0 0
2016 6.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · PA · Erie

552 Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, 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 Chemol Company Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channel Chemical Corporation 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life Sciences : IDT - San Diego 2 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Rising Sun, MD) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillendale Services, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield 14235 US Route 6, Mansfield, PA 16933 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Division Wilkes Barre 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Ponchatoula Nursing Home, LLC d/b/a Belle Maison Nursing Home 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MJ Takisaki, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pointe Nursing and Rehab Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Boise (Idboi) 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chase Farms - Arizona 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fas Alb 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Dow Chemical Company Charlotte Operations 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLEB-HCT-CLEBURNE 47 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.