Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation · Texas

New Iberia Plant

New Iberia, TX · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Iberia Plant runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation workplace, earning a grade A.

New Iberia Plant: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Iberia Plant safety composite

New Iberia Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

New Iberia Plant: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.33× in 2022

New Iberia Plant's TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · New Iberia, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO TMS Jewett
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TMS Jewett (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Iberia Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Iberia Plant averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation BLS benchmark).

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

New Iberia Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where New Iberia Plant falls in its industry

97 Kaolin, processing beyond bene establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Kaolin, processing beyond bene employers in Texas.

New Iberia Plant (29 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 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 New Iberia Plant
New Iberia Plant (29 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

New Iberia Plant has fewer employees than the Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation 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
2022 8.2 2.7 3 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
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · TX · New Iberia

97 Kaolin, processing beyond beneficiation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 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 TMS Jewett 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Attapulgus Site 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyway Cement 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SDI Pittsboro 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pepper Dairy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE SROOC Holding LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Logging, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Mold-Rite Plastics LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Inspired Technology and Communications LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Illinois Liquor Control Commission-Chicago 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Management Indiana - ECI Facility 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens Lumber Company, Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buttonwillow 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hornbuckle Heating & Air Conditioning 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agricultural Distributing, Inc. 29 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: 2022, 2021, 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.