Sodium bichromate and chromate manufacturing · North Carolina

Elementis Castle Hayne

Castle Hayne, NC · ~111 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elementis Castle Hayne runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sodium bichromate and chromate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Elementis Castle Hayne: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Sodium bichromate and chromate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elementis Castle Hayne safety composite

Elementis Castle Hayne scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Elementis Castle Hayne: 0.9 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Elementis Castle Hayne's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.9 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Castle Hayne, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Koppers Rock Hill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koppers Rock Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elementis Castle Hayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elementis Castle Hayne averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Sodium bichromate and chromate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Elementis Castle Hayne TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Elementis Castle Hayne falls in its industry

418 Sodium bichromate and chromate establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Sodium bichromate and chromate employers in North Carolina.

Elementis Castle Hayne (111 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Elementis Castle Hayne
Elementis Castle Hayne (111 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Elementis Castle Hayne has more employees than the Sodium bichromate and chromate manufactu 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 2.3 0.0 2 1 0
2019 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · NC · Castle Hayne

418 Sodium bichromate and chromate manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 19 employers in Castle Hayne, NC · 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 Koppers Rock Hill 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lonza/Arch - Charleston 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtrade Solutions LLC East St. Louis 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Corporation 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Farms 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Energy Management 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Tennessee Statewide Operations 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4300 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeycutt Construction - Wilmington 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31827 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilmington North Operations Complex 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR 31827 - American Chrome - CASTLE HAYNE 44 FTE
NAT-TCR SMM Group SMR Claremont 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CSDNB - Central Office 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kgds Development Services Bldg 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bennys Car Wash - Perkins 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Packaging Corporation - Troy 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pagoda Electrical Inc 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intralox, LLC - Hammond, LA 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paslin - 10 Mile 111 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.