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

PQ Corporation- Rahway

Avenel, NJ · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PQ Corporation- Rahway runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

PQ Corporation- Rahway: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PQ Corporation- Rahway safety composite

PQ Corporation- Rahway scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2016→2020

PQ Corporation- Rahway injury rate improved

PQ Corporation- Rahway's TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Avenel, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Equistar Chemicals LP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Equistar Chemicals LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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PQ Corporation- Rahway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PQ Corporation- Rahway averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PQ Corporation- Rahway TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where PQ Corporation- Rahway falls in its industry

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

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Sodium silicate (i.e., water g employers in New Jersey.

PQ Corporation- Rahway (28 employees, TCR 2.3) 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- Rahway
PQ Corporation- Rahway (28 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PQ Corporation- Rahway 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · NJ · Avenel

418 Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 49 employers in Avenel, NJ · 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 Equistar Chemicals LP 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones-Hamilton Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Water Care LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvay USA Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ayr Wellness NJ LLC - Lakewood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Farmingdale Production 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arc NJ LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Solar Products, Inc 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : EWR5 2,469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR5 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Specialty Fulfillment : EWR6 1,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR7 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Hft #3 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 046 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Hills at Ottumwa 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood Memory Care 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clyde, OH 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airdraulics Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Hanover 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schenker Inc(Intel Santa Clara) 28 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, 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.