Pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing · Ohio

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1

Name: Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Ashtabula, OH · ~249 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 safety composite

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1: 0.7 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2018

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.7 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Ashtabula, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #3/13
PHOTO Kemira Bushy Park
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kemira Bushy Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colors and Eff

1
This site

0.9
Kemira Bushy P

0.9
Archroma U.S.

0.9
INEOS Pigments

0.9

What this shows Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 falls in its industry

75 Pigments (except bone black, c establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Pigments (except bone black, c employers in Ohio.

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 (249 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 1 has more employees than the Pigments (except bone black, carbon blac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018	2.0	1.3	5	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0
2016	0.7	0.3	1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · OH · Ashtabula

75 Pigments (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), inorganic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Ashtabula, OH · 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	Kemira Bushy Park	GOOSE CREEK, SC	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Archroma U.S. Inc.	MARTIN, SC	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	INEOS Pigments USA Inc. Plant 1	ASHTABULA, OH	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Colors and Effects USA LLC	NEWPORT, DE	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dunbar Mechanical Inc.	TOLEDO	249 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Voss Industries, LLC	BEREA	249 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Miba Bearings US, LLC	MCCONNELSVILLE	249 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Imasen Bucyrus Technology	BUCYRUS	249 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ashtabula County Medical Center	Ashtabula	976 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Molded Fiber Glass Composite Systems Company	Ashtabula	456 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2359	Ashtabula	390 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2359	Ashtabula	388 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pearland PVF	Pearland, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Miami, FL	Medley, FL	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Northern California - 602	Pleasanton, CA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Burford's Tree LLC - 344	Tavares, FL	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Clarksville 25	Clarksville, IN	249 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dallas FC	Coppell, TX	249 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sayville Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	Sayville, NY	249 FTE
NAT-SIZE	624 - Boca Raton	Boca Raton, FL	249 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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