Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania

Name: PQ - Chester Pennsylvania Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chester, PA · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania safety composite

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Chester, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

DART 6.1 DART
RANK #8/15
PHOTO Chemtrade Solutions …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemtrade Solutions LLC Shreveport (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.1
Chemtrade Solu

3.1
Eagle US 2 LLC

3.1
Stellar Manufa

3
West Plant

3

What this shows PQ - Chester Pennsylvania averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where PQ - Chester Pennsylvania falls in its industry

418 Sodium silicate (i.e., water g establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Sodium silicate (i.e., water g employers in Pennsylvania.

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania (31 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PQ - Chester Pennsylvania has fewer employees than the Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manu median and a higher 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
2017	6.1	6.1	2	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · PA · Chester

418 Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 45 employers in Chester, PA · 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	Chemtrade Solutions LLC Shreveport	SHREVEPORT, LA	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eagle US 2 LLC	LONGVIEW, WA	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stellar Manufacturing, LLC	SAUGET, IL	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	West Plant	LOUISVILLE, KY	3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Spawn Plant	LINCOLN UNIVERSITY	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Caputo & Guest Mushrooms	KENNETT SQUARE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	COLSC Cocalico Service Center	EPHRATA	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Phoenixville Service Building	PHOENIXVILLE	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harrah's Philadelphia Casino Racetrack	Chester	1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Health Access Network	Chester	941 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PHRG PHL/HQ	Chester	826 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PHRG HQ	Chester	680 FTE
NAT-TCR	Diemasters Mg. Inc.	Elk Grove Village, IL	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Perrysburg Center	Perrysburg, OH	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Muncie Power Products, Inc. Mfg Div	Tulsa, OK	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kastle Electric Co., LLC	Dayton, OH	3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Martin Overhead Garage Door Service Inc.	St. Peters, MO	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Superior Lawns Inc.-Plainfield Branch	Plainfield, IL	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bieker Electric, Inc.	Fort Smith, AR	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0175 - Laurel, Md	Laurel, MD	31 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: 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.