Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · South Carolina

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant

Name: Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Blacksburg, SC · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant safety composite

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant injury rate improved

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Blacksburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/21
PHOTO Methanex USA, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Methanex USA, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.5
Methanex USA,

0.5
ChampionX

0.5
Indorama Ventu

0.5
Pasadena Site

0.5

What this shows Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 21 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in South Carolina.

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant (200 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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	1.0	0.5	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · SC · Blacksburg

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Blacksburg, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Methanex USA, LLC	GEIMAR, LA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ChampionX	ODESSA, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Indorama Ventures - Dayton	DAYTON, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pasadena Site	PASADENA, TX	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Gilliland Plant	LAURENS	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Carolina Particle Board	BENNETTSVILLE	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cooper River Plant	WANDO	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Milliken & Company Allen Plant	BLACKSBURG	200 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Magnolia Finishing Plant	Blacksburg	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Moorhead Brothers Inc	Blacksburg	147 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sloan Charleston	Blacksburg	87 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sloan Bridge	Blacksburg	68 FTE
NAT-TCR	Celeste Industries Corporation	Easton, MD	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	GLOUCESTER	Gloucester, VA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	AAPCO Southeast, Inc.	Concord, NC	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saint-Gobain PERF PLASTCS CORP	Gaithersburg, MD	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA	Walnut, CA	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	5025-Wichita Hauling	Wichita, KS	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Long Beach Marriott	Long Beach, CA	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atl Ltl	Forest Park, GA	200 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.