Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing · South Carolina

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester

Chester, SC · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester safety composite

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.98× in 2019

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Chester, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/29
  • PHOTO LaPorte PVOH
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaPorte PVOH (0.0 TCR gap)

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OMNOVA Solutions - Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OMNOVA Solutions - Chester averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where OMNOVA Solutions - Chester falls in its industry

644 Vinyl acetate resins manufactu establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 29 Vinyl acetate resins manufactu employers in South Carolina.

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester (71 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 OMNOVA Solutions - Chester
OMNOVA Solutions - Chester (71 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

OMNOVA Solutions - Chester has fewer employees than the Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · SC · Chester

644 Vinyl acetate resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, SC · 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 LaPorte PVOH 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dow Chemical - Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR INEOS Composites US, LLC - Los Angeles 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edisto Electric Cooperative, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairfield Electric Cooperative, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Langston Construction LLC of the Piedmont 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roebuck Buildings Co., Inc. 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Akm LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton Eastern Regional Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 30013-Capstone Ingles Nc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte Center Drive 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PHPM Mission Care Centers-New Covenant LP 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Elementary School 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMB155 San Francisco 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 1971 71 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.