Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing · California

NGC - Richmond Plant

Richmond, CA · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGC - Richmond Plant runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

NGC - Richmond Plant: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGC - Richmond Plant safety composite

NGC - Richmond Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 - Richmond Plant: 2.8 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2020

NGC - Richmond Plant's TCR rose 6.0 from 2.8 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Richmond, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO CertainTeed Gypsum
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CertainTeed Gypsum (0.1 TCR gap)

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NGC - Richmond Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGC - Richmond Plant averages 5.8 TCR (175% 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 - Richmond Plant TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where NGC - Richmond Plant falls in its industry

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #6 safest of 7 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturi employers in California.

NGC - Richmond Plant (59 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 - Richmond Plant
NGC - Richmond Plant (59 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NGC - Richmond Plant has fewer employees than the Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2020 8.8 5.9 6 0 0
2019 7.6 7.6 6 0 0
2018 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · CA · Richmond

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 158 employers in Richmond, 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 CertainTeed Gypsum 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WA075 Tacoma Gypsum 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed-Gypsum Manufacturing 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NV010 Las Vegas Gypsum 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 134 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 635 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 147 2,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 105 2,724 FTE
NAT-TCR Blue Bell Mattress Co., LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000145 Quickchek Food Store 145 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kankakee Extrusion 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grande Communicaitons Corpus Christi 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avita of Brunswick 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carriage House at Lees Farm 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMECO Lake Charles 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedarwood Health Care Center 59 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: 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.