Carbon black manufacturing · Alabama

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City

Phenix City, AL · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City safety composite

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City: 2.7 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2018

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.7 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Phenix City, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO The Dallas Group of …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Dallas Group of America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Continental Carbon Company Phenix City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Continental Carbon Company Phenix City averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Continental Carbon Company Phenix City falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City (66 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Continental Carbon Company Phenix City
Continental Carbon Company Phenix City (66 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Continental Carbon Company Phenix City has more employees than the Carbon black manufacturing median and a higher 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
2018 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2017 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · AL · Phenix City

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 52 employers in Phenix City, AL · 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 The Dallas Group of America 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PVS Steel Services - Burns Harbor 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tessenderlo Kerley Coffeyville, KS 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aldrich-APL, LLC/Millipore Sigma 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Division Tuscaloosa Crew Headquarters 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Homes-Birmingham office 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Alabama 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim Cooper Construction Company, inc. 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alatrade - Phenix City 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alatrade Foods Inc - Phenix City 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1284 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1284 377 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ArcelorMittal Conshohocken 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Charter Homes & Neighborhoods 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Council Bluffs Branch 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE New York - 450 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Summer Trace AL 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Outagamie County 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPA Des Moines - Distribution Center 66 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.