Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing · Louisiana

Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.

Kentwood, LA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
10
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.7 to the Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (141% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-5051015 20162017201820192020 9.63.3 Industry benchmarkKentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 327331.

Where Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. falls in its industry

345 Precast concrete block and bri establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Trend analysis for Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.

Between 2016 and 2020, Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Total Case Rate worsened from 4.8 to 9.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 99% increase across 4 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 9.6, a spread of 9.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. recorded 10 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 10 injuries shown on this page for Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 327331 - Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 83,333 hours worked = 2.40 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. (this establishment) 4.66 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Bricks, concrete, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 327331
Louisiana state avg (all industries) 2.92 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 9.6 2.4 4 0 0
2019 6.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 141% of the Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing benchmark, Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s safety grade?
Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Precast concrete block and brick manufacturing.
How many injuries has Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. reported?
Kentwood Brick & Tile Manufacturing Co. Inc. has reported 10 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2020, 2019, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.