Carbon black manufacturing · Louisiana

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant

Name: Cabot Corporation Canal Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Franklin, LA · ~135 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant safety composite

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant held a steady TCR band

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #10/30
PHOTO Eco Services Operati…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eco Services Operations Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Cabot Corporation Canal Plant averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Cabot Corporation Canal Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 30 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Louisiana.

Cabot Corporation Canal Plant (135 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Cabot Corporation Canal 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.6	0.6	1
2018	1.3	1.3	2
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · LA · Franklin

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 15 employers in Franklin, LA · 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	Eco Services Operations Corp	HOUSTON, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC - Paducah	KEVIL, KY	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Addis	ADDIS, LA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Albemarle Corporation Magnolia Plants	MAGNOLIA, AR	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc.	SCOTT	135 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Performance Contractors, Inc. - ExxonMobil Refinery	BATON ROUGE	135 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TONY CHACHERE'S	OPELOUSAS	135 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lafayette Container	LAFAYETTE	135 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hospital Service District No 1 of St Mary Parish d/b/a Franklin Foundation Hospital	Franklin	288 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cabot Canal	Franklin	154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hospital District No. 1 of St. Mary Parish d/b/a Franklin Foundation Hospital	Franklin	144 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sterling Sugars, LLC	Franklin	139 FTE
NAT-TCR	Indian Point Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc	Buchanan, NY	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	IEF- Westborough	Westborough, MA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	HQ Commerce	Raleigh, NC	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chelsea Ma	Chelsea, MA	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ASGCO Mfg.	Allentown, PA	135 FTE
NAT-SIZE	O'Neal Manufacturing Services dba Iowa Laser Technology	Cedar Falls, IA	135 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Gypsum	Duke, OK	135 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brentwood500	Reading, PA	135 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.