Silica gel manufacturing · Illinois

PQ Corporation

Joliet, IL · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PQ Corporation runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Silica gel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

PQ Corporation: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Silica gel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PQ Corporation safety composite

PQ Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

PQ Corporation held a steady TCR band

PQ Corporation's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.0 TCR.

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Joliet, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/25
  • PHOTO HoneywellAL37
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HoneywellAL37 (0.1 TCR gap)

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PQ Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PQ Corporation averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Silica gel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PQ Corporation TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where PQ Corporation falls in its industry

418 Silica gel manufacturing establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 25 Silica gel manufacturing employers in Illinois.

PQ Corporation (60 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate PQ Corporation
PQ Corporation (60 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PQ Corporation has fewer employees than the Silica gel manufacturing 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · IL · Joliet

418 Silica gel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, IL · 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 HoneywellAL37 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingleside Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albemarle 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemical Sout 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Grand Ridge, IL 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VDF Agriculture Department 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy - Chicago 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Champaign) 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Lawrenceburg 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecker Textiles, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Electric Corp 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bilow Farms, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unger Construction 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Construction 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Resource Recovery - Attalla, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Remer Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning 60 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, 2022, 2021. 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.