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

PQ LLC Chester Plant

Chester, PA · ~28 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 LLC Chester Plant runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

PQ LLC Chester Plant: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PQ LLC Chester Plant safety composite

PQ LLC Chester Plant 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 LLC Chester Plant held a steady TCR band

PQ LLC Chester Plant'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 · Chester, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/15
  • PHOTO HoneywellAL37
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HoneywellAL37 (0.1 TCR gap)

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PQ LLC Chester Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PQ LLC Chester Plant averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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 LLC Chester Plant TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where PQ LLC Chester Plant falls in its industry

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

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 15 Sodium silicate (i.e., water g employers in Pennsylvania.

PQ LLC Chester Plant (28 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 LLC Chester Plant
PQ LLC Chester Plant (28 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PQ LLC Chester Plant has fewer employees than the Sodium silicate (i.e., water glass) manu 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 · 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 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 Masda Mushroom LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scenery Hill 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Fire and Safety LLC., DBA Ampro Strategic Alliance PA 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bethlehem Energy Center 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Philadelphia Casino Racetrack 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Access Network 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG PHL/HQ 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHRG HQ 680 FTE
NAT-TCR Other Location 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Putzel Electrical Contractors, Inc. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaapr - Ups Supply Chain Solutions 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TXC101551 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coupe Construction Company, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stone Lodge 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olympus Ranch 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: 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.