Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing · Virginia

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant

Covington, VA · ~198 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant safety composite

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2024

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant injury rate improved

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Covington, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Huntsman Internation…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntsman International, Charlotte Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant falls in its industry

485 Activated carbon or charcoal m establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Activated carbon or charcoal m employers in Virginia.

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant (198 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant
Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant (198 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ingevity - Covington Carbon Plant has more employees than the Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturi 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 Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2021 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 7 0
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · VA · Covington

485 Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Covington, VA · 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 Huntsman International, Charlotte Site 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water Science Technologies, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dodge Billerica 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prince Energy - Lufkin 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RB Hinkle Const Inc 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delphinus Eng. Div 2 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cost Plus World Market Virginia DC 6909 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0420 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington Mill 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3701 Covington Mill 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2662 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2662 215 FTE
NAT-TCR The Redmond Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Citrosuco North America, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Real Alloy Recycling, LLC. - Loudon, TN 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR South Point Energy Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Murnane Construction Services, Inc. 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Hills Retirment Village 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custer State Park 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 400 Lakeville Rd 198 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, 2019, 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.