Methyl chloride manufacturing · Texas

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX

La Porte, TX · ~116 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX runs at 2% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Methyl chloride manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Methyl chloride manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX safety composite

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX held a steady TCR band

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · La Porte, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/103
  • PHOTO Invista Orange Site
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Invista Orange Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX averages 0.1 TCR (2% of the Methyl chloride manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX falls in its industry

552 Methyl chloride manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 103 Methyl chloride manufacturing employers in Texas.

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX (116 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX
The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX (116 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

The Dow Chemical Company - La Porte, TX has more employees than the Methyl chloride manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TX · La Porte

552 Methyl chloride manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 170 employers in La Porte, TX · 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 Invista Orange Site 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Borger Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covestro Pittsburgh 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equistar Chemicals, Bayport 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103173 - GE-USLNG Trains-1-5 Pad Assembly 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bandera Electric Cooperative 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE NACOGDOCHES 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Non-GBU Office 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stronghold, Ltd. 2,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stronghold Specialty, Ltd. 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR TURN 2 Specialty Companies 1,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dashiell Corp/Dacon Corp 973 FTE
NAT-TCR InDemand Industrial Services Corporate 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Work from home 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 144 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 187 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 0647 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0728 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 089 Stewartville 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1123 116 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.