Polyurethane resins manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Quaker Color Inc

Quakertown, PA · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quaker Color Inc runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Polyurethane resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Quaker Color Inc: 6.9 TCR = 208% of Polyurethane resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quaker Color Inc safety composite

Quaker Color Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−2.9

2016→2024

Quaker Color Inc injury rate improved

Quaker Color Inc's TCR fell 2.9 from 5.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=7.0 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Quakertown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 208% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #32/37
  • PHOTO Sterling Products Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterling Products Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quaker Color Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quaker Color Inc averages 6.9 TCR (208% of the Polyurethane resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quaker Color Inc TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=7 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Quaker Color Inc falls in its industry

644 Polyurethane resins manufactur establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 37 Polyurethane resins manufactur employers in Pennsylvania.

Quaker Color Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Quaker Color Inc
Quaker Color Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Quaker Color Inc has fewer employees than the Polyurethane resins manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2022 8.7 8.7 4 0 0
2021 13.9 7.0 6 0 0
2020 7.0 2.3 2 1 0
2019 11.3 6.8 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.3 4.8 3 0 0
2016 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · PA · Quakertown

644 Polyurethane resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 116 employers in Quakertown, 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 Sterling Products Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Octal Extrusions 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Materials 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oribi Manufacturing, LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DocHouse 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florin Farms Hatchery, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Risser's Poultry, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2446 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2446 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pulse Technologies 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Rozga Plumbing and Heating Corporation 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR vanex tube corporation 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ebi LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Residence at Waterford Crossing 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3098 Keystone Jacksonville 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1180LKQ Self Serve Tampa 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson- Dry Bulk Transport 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur- Dry Bulk Transport 45 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.