Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing · California

NGC - Long Beach Plant

Long Beach, CA · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGC - Long Beach Plant runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

NGC - Long Beach Plant: 1.7 TCR = 53% of Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGC - Long Beach Plant safety composite

NGC - Long Beach Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.61 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%).

Rising injury rate

NGC - Long Beach Plant: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2019

NGC - Long Beach Plant's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Long Beach, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO NGC- Medicine Lodge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NGC- Medicine Lodge (0.0 TCR gap)

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NGC - Long Beach Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGC - Long Beach Plant averages 1.7 TCR (53% of the Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NGC - Long Beach Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where NGC - Long Beach Plant falls in its industry

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturi employers in California.

NGC - Long Beach Plant (64 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NGC - Long Beach Plant
NGC - Long Beach Plant (64 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NGC - Long Beach Plant has fewer employees than the Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · CA · Long Beach

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 614 employers in Long Beach, CA · 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 NGC- Medicine Lodge 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Bond Building Products 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACG Materials Mooreland 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGC - Apollo Beach 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDERA 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGS FARM LABOR CORPORATION 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arroyo Seco Vineyards, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center 3,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBM00 LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MED CENTER 3,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Total Terminals International, LLC. 2,683 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 300 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Tara Woods 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kentucky APG 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 403-Boise Exchange Street 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 11800 Tech Rd 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meriter Wisconsin Heart 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE JBP Pocatello 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Ceramics Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Systems, Inc. 64 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: 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.