Carbon black manufacturing · Louisiana

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant

Centerville, LA · ~150 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant safety composite

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant held a steady TCR band

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.8 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=1.8 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Centerville, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #25/30
  • PHOTO Koppers Hubbell
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koppers Hubbell (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birla Carbon North Bend Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birla Carbon North Bend Plant averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=1.8 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Birla Carbon North Bend Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 30 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Louisiana.

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant (150 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Birla Carbon North Bend Plant
Birla Carbon North Bend Plant (150 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Birla Carbon North Bend Plant has more employees than the Carbon black manufacturing 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 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · LA · Centerville

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 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 Koppers Hubbell 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Matthey Process Technologies Savannah 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Carbon Company Sunray 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtrade Solutions LLC AUG 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Westlake Group 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Equipment Division Baton Rouge LA 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE APTIM @ Louisiana Pigment 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway, LLC - Shell Refinery - Convent 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Bend 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Paul J Rogan Co Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GH Metal Solutions, Loc'n #1073 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WW AFCO Steel-Hirschfeld Division San Angelo 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati Manufacturing 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sofidel America Las Vegas 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coldwater Veneer, Inc. 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGC Electronics America 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Houlton 150 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.