Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing · West Virginia

Kingsford Manufacturing

Parsons, WV · ~99 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kingsford Manufacturing runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kingsford Manufacturing: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kingsford Manufacturing safety composite

Kingsford Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2017→2024

Kingsford Manufacturing injury rate improved

Kingsford Manufacturing's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.6 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.6 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.1 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Parsons, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Pinova, Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pinova, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kingsford Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kingsford Manufacturing averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kingsford Manufacturing TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.1 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kingsford Manufacturing falls in its industry

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man employers in West Virginia.

Kingsford Manufacturing (99 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kingsford Manufacturing
Kingsford Manufacturing (99 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kingsford Manufacturing has more employees than the Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing median and a higher 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 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.6 2.2 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · WV · Parsons

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 3 employers in Parsons, WV · 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 Pinova, Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AOC Materials WV 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Distilling Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hope Gas-Morgantown Headquarters 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raw Feild Services LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE C340 Charleston 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00782 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parsons 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hinchcliff Lumber Company 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Franklin Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health Center of Branch County 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 093 - Ogden Ut 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 55884 Tacoma 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heidebreicht Inc 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Banks Hardwoods Inc 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Healthcare Resort of Kansas City 99 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.