Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum · Ohio

Quaker Houghton

Middletown, OH · ~60 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

Quaker Houghton runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade B.

Quaker Houghton: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quaker Houghton safety composite

Quaker Houghton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Quaker Houghton: 2.5 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Quaker Houghton's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.5 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Middletown, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Quaker Houghton PA, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quaker Houghton PA, Inc. - Detroit (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quaker Houghton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quaker Houghton averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

Quaker Houghton TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Quaker Houghton falls in its industry

171 Lubricating oils and greases, establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Lubricating oils and greases, employers in Ohio.

Quaker Houghton (60 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Quaker Houghton
Quaker Houghton (60 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Quaker Houghton has more employees than the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 2.5 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · OH · Middletown

171 Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 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 Quaker Houghton PA, Inc. - Detroit 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rock Valley Oil & Chemical 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Metalworking Fluids 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KFM Enterprises LLC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE White House Fruit Farm Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wholesale 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutknecht Construction Company 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Olshan Foundation Repair Co. of Jackson LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR F. Radich Motors Inc., DBA Elk Grove Honda 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Yanke Machine Shop Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC Murray Division 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oregon Berry Packing Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE T.D logistiks LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distributors Leasing, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackmon Mooring of Austin LLC 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, 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.