Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Houghton Chemical Corporation

Allston, MA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houghton Chemical Corporation runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Houghton Chemical Corporation: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houghton Chemical Corporation safety composite

Houghton Chemical Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Houghton Chemical Corporation held a steady TCR band

Houghton Chemical Corporation's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Allston, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/12
  • PHOTO Hydrite Chemical Co.…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydrite Chemical Co. HQ - Brookfield WI (0.1 TCR gap)

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Houghton Chemical Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houghton Chemical Corporation averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houghton Chemical Corporation TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Houghton Chemical Corporation falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 12 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Massachusetts.

Houghton Chemical Corporation (26 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houghton Chemical Corporation
Houghton Chemical Corporation (26 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Houghton Chemical Corporation has fewer employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · MA · Allston

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 13 employers in Allston, MA · 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 Hydrite Chemical Co. HQ - Brookfield WI 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nexeo Solutions - The Woodlands 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pronto 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellsworth Corporation - Germantown, Wisconsin 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHELD 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCPHEE ASSOCIATES, INC. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Boston Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE JP Masonry Inc 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allston Landing Facility 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spaulding Nursing & Therapy Center 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hamilton Company Inc 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR STOP & SHOP 100089 143 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont - Community Support Includes Recreation and Human Services 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogers Group, Inc 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Creedmoor Forest Products, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of White Bear Lake - Public Works 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centurion Construction Group LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ethrue-001, LLC 26 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.