Ceramic fiber manufacturing · West Virginia

Corhart Refractories

Buckhannon, WV · ~138 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corhart Refractories runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ceramic fiber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Corhart Refractories: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corhart Refractories safety composite

Corhart Refractories scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Corhart Refractories: 2.5 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Corhart Refractories's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327999 · Buckhannon, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P41
  • PHOTO Ewles Materials/New …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ewles Materials/New Rental Co. - Division of John B. Ewles Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corhart Refractories in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corhart Refractories averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Corhart Refractories TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Corhart Refractories falls in its industry

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Corhart Refractories (138 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Corhart Refractories
Corhart Refractories (138 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Corhart Refractories has more employees than the Ceramic fiber manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 3.2 3.2 5 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 3 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 5 0 0
2016 2.5 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327999 · WV · Buckhannon

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 34 employers in Buckhannon, WV · 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 Ewles Materials/New Rental Co. - Division of John B. Ewles Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR INDC Custom Building Products 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Building Products HOUC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyrotek Columbia City 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0746 LOWE S OF S. CHARLESTON WV 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00772 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1828 - Bridgeport 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4860 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon EWP 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2809 279 FTE
NAT-TCR PotlatchDeltic Land & Lumber, LLC. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Pallet Co. LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Suwanee Office #1002 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Barbe America, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frederic Printing 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE OptiMIM LLC 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ndx Albensi 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lamplight Farms 138 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.