Industrial Cleaning · Texas

HydroChem LLC-SHX

Baytown, TX · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HydroChem LLC-SHX runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial Cleaning workplace, earning a grade A.

HydroChem LLC-SHX: 0.8 TCR = 28% of Industrial Cleaning BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HydroChem LLC-SHX safety composite

HydroChem LLC-SHX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

HydroChem LLC-SHX: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

HydroChem LLC-SHX's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Baytown, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #112/206
  • PHOTO Everest Scaffolding,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Everest Scaffolding, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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HydroChem LLC-SHX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HydroChem LLC-SHX averages 0.8 TCR (28% of the Industrial Cleaning BLS benchmark).

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

HydroChem LLC-SHX TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where HydroChem LLC-SHX falls in its industry

1,634 Industrial Cleaning establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 206 Industrial Cleaning employers in Texas.

HydroChem LLC-SHX (34 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate HydroChem LLC-SHX
HydroChem LLC-SHX (34 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HydroChem LLC-SHX has fewer employees than the Industrial Cleaning 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
2020 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · TX · Baytown

1,634 Industrial Cleaning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 247 employers in Baytown, TX · 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 Everest Scaffolding, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HydroChem LLC-LVX 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buck Bros LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JMS Crane & Rigging, LLC. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SOUTHWEST FEED YARD 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Cattle Company, L.P. - Tulia 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE TXP 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Growth Olefins Recovery Project 2,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital 1,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery 1,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7042 1,288 FTE
NAT-TCR Heavy Highway Construction 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Watermark Environmental Lowell, MA 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nonwovens 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NJ0392CB6 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HydroChem LLC-TOK 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Huntsville at the Space & Rocket Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Phoenix Chandler Fashion Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Grande Supermarket LLC 34 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.