Carbon black manufacturing · Louisiana

Ivanhoe Plant

Franklin, LA · ~56 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ivanhoe Plant runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ivanhoe Plant: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ivanhoe Plant safety composite

Ivanhoe Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% 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%).

Ivanhoe Plant held a steady TCR band

Ivanhoe Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Franklin, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/30
  • PHOTO Eco Services Baton R…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eco Services Baton Rouge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ivanhoe Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ivanhoe Plant averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ivanhoe Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ivanhoe Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 30 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Louisiana.

Ivanhoe Plant (56 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 Ivanhoe Plant
Ivanhoe Plant (56 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Ivanhoe Plant has fewer employees than the Carbon black manufacturing 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · LA · Franklin

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 15 employers in Franklin, LA · 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 Eco Services Baton Rouge 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elementis SRL 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-TX-Robstown-4518-Co Rd 28 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabot Corporation Tuscola 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOS 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clean Harbors Exploration Services Inc 87KQL 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plaquemines Parish 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Mosaic 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital Service District No 1 of St Mary Parish d/b/a Franklin Foundation Hospital 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabot Canal 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital District No. 1 of St. Mary Parish d/b/a Franklin Foundation Hospital 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Sugars, LLC 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Cortez 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hinderliter Construction, Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Customer Service Support 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RP Oak Hill Building Company Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE MTS Spring Hill 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE S06563 - Davis St MRF 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whittier 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04201 - WM of Utah - Orem 56 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.