Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing · Texas

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant

Name: Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Houston, TX · ~127 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant safety composite

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2020

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #9/26
PHOTO komfg2720
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: komfg2720 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Office/Plant

1.4
This site

1.3
komfg2720

1.3
ABF Bridge

1.3
Ecolab US11

1.3

What this shows Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant falls in its industry

240 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 26 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, employers in Texas.

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant (127 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC-Houston Plant has more employees than the Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industria median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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	2.6	0.9	3	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · TX · Houston

240 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	komfg2720	SPRINGFIELD, MO	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ABF Bridge	WAUKEGAN, IL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Office/Plant	SEGUIN, TX	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ecolab US11	JOLIET, IL	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tri Pointe Homes Dallas-Fort Worth	PLANO	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Blue Star Utilities	MANSFIELD	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Reyes Group Ltd Texas	GRAND PRAIRIE	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bain Enterprises, LLC	HORIZON CITY	127 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH IAH	Houston	11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices	Houston	10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-IAH	Houston	9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center	Houston	8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - West Fargo	West Fargo, ND	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cincinnati ORR Protection	West Chester, OH	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hampton Inn Seekonk	Seekonk, MA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meisner Electric	Delray Beach, FL	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Heartland of Centerville	Centerville, OH	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CCI:CC019 - CC019-Snohomish, WA Office	Snohomish, WA	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brandon Woods of Dartmouth	South Dartmouth, MA	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0082-Cleveland Pines Nursing Center	Shelby, NC	127 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. 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.