Carbon black manufacturing · Texas

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant

Borger, TX · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant safety composite

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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, LLC Borger Plant: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× 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 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/47
  • PHOTO Olin Corporation - A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olin Corporation - Augusta Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant averages 0.4 TCR (13% 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, LLC Borger Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #9 safest of 47 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Texas.

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant (69 employees, TCR 0.4) 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, LLC Borger Plant
Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant (69 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Orion Engineered Carbons, LLC Borger Plant 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
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 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 Olin Corporation - Augusta Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtrade Refinery Solutions LP Toledo Acid 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabot Pampa Facilities 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eco Services Corp 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ring Energy Office The Woodlands 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Rock Oil Field Services 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Cedar Bayou Generating Station 69 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 Green Bay Corporate 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SH - Patient Financial Services 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Electronics Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Campus School 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perimeter Security Group LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burfords Tree LLC - 347 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Bend - Utilities Dept Boyd Campus 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearly Clean Products, LLC. (1) 69 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.