Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing · Delaware

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport

Name: BASF Colors & Effects - Newport Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Newport, DE · ~154 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport safety composite

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport: 1.2 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2018

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Newport, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK P61
PHOTO Venator Material Corp
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Venator Material Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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DIC Imaging Pr

2.3
DayGlo Color C

2.3
Troy Corp

2.2
This site

2.1
Venator Materi

2

What this shows BASF Colors & Effects - Newport averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where BASF Colors & Effects - Newport falls in its industry

75 Color pigments, organic (excep establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport (154 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

BASF Colors & Effects - Newport has more employees than the Color pigments, organic (except animal b 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
2018	1.8	1.2	2	1
2017	3.2	1.3	5	0
2016	1.2	1.2	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · DE · Newport

75 Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 11 employers in Newport, DE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Venator Material Corp	AUGUSTA, GA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Troy Corp	NEWARK, NJ	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DIC Imaging Products USA	OAK CREEK, WI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DayGlo Color Cleveland Facility	CLEVELAND, OH	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	4818-DE01	NEW CASTLE	154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3168 LOWE S OF BEAR DE	BEAR	154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pencader Vespel	NEWARK	153 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2537 LOWE S OF CAMDEN DE	CAMDEN	156 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Diamond Materials LLC	Newport	353 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colors and Effects USA LLC	Newport	157 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Air Liquide Advanced Solutions	Newport	142 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Newport	Newport	111 FTE
NAT-TCR	Loading-South Central -Est	Clinton, NC	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chatsworth Samples	Chatsworth, GA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mountain West Medical Center	Tooele, UT	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	GARCO, Inc.	Asheboro, NC	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	KY-02	Louisville, KY	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Springfield (Extended) (Mospe)	Springfield, MO	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Missoula (Mtmis)	Missoula, MT	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gayesco-Wika Lp	Pasadena, TX	154 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: 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.