Carbon black manufacturing · Texas

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger

Borger, TX · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger safety composite

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Borger, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #15/47
  • PHOTO The Chemours Company…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Chemours Company FC, LLC - La Porte (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #15 safest of 47 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Texas.

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger (68 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger
Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger (68 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Orion Engineered Carbons - Borger has more employees than the Carbon black manufacturing 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
2024 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · TX · Borger

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 37 employers in Borger, TX · 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 The Chemours Company FC, LLC - La Porte 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkema Clear Lake 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Americas LLC, St. Gabriel 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Materials 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal Maine Foods, inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lon Hill Transmission Service 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Texas NGL) 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1500 W LOOP 340 WACO TX 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borger Refinery 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borger Refinery (Phillips 66 Company) 666 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Insulation Company 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1516 282 FTE
NAT-TCR Springfield Supportive Living LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-620 LOWES BLVD 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Raeco Builders LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Assembly, Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ronyak Paving Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ensight Solutions 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deer Crest 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB York Assisted Living 68 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.