Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufacturing · Virginia

Celanese Narrows

Narrows, VA · ~609 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Celanese Narrows runs at 8% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Celanese Narrows: 0.3 TCR = 8% of Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Celanese Narrows safety composite

Celanese Narrows scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Celanese Narrows held a steady TCR band

Celanese Narrows's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2017=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325220 · Narrows, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 8% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO DSM Dyneema LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~609 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DSM Dyneema LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Celanese Narrows in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Celanese Narrows averages 0.3 TCR (8% of the Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Celanese Narrows TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Celanese Narrows falls in its industry

68 Cigarette tow, cellulosic fibe establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Cigarette tow, cellulosic fibe employers in Virginia.

Celanese Narrows (609 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 167 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Celanese Narrows
Celanese Narrows (609 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 167 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Celanese Narrows has more employees than the Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2017 0.3 0.3 2 0 0
2016 0.1 0.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325220 · VA · Narrows

68 Cigarette tow, cellulosic fiber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia 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 DSM Dyneema LLC 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Celanese Acetate LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Spruance Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hexcel Salt Lake City Carbon Fibers 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Aviation VBW 609 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zimmerman Associates, Inc 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRAVO! FACILITY SERVICES, INC. 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE HP Hood - Winchester 611 FTE
NAT-TCR NBF Headquarters 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carville PS 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Husqvarna Forestry ProductsN.A. Inc. Howard St 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago CTC 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sharp Coronado Hospital 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jabil Inc. 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE McHenry 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Truepill, Inc. 609 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: 2017, 2016. 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.