Carbon black manufacturing · Texas

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office

Kingwood, TX · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office safety composite

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office held a steady TCR band

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.0 TCR.

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/47
  • PHOTO HoneywellAL37
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HoneywellAL37 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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, Kingwood Office TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 47 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Texas.

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office (96 employees, TCR 0.0) 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, Kingwood Office
Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office (96 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Orion Engineered Carbons LLC, Kingwood Office 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · TX · Kingwood

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 40 employers in Kingwood, 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 HoneywellAL37 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingleside Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albemarle 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemical Sout 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3110 N I35 ROUND ROCK TX 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECO Central Plant 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oates Industries, Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen - 1800 Hughes Landing Blvd 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4039-00000500-00W001 1,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingwood Medical Center 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Clubs of Kingwood 358 FTE
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gap Inc. - Corporate 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta - Phipps 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer 208 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE LGEUS GA Alpharetta 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co. Bend Office 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dot Foods, Inc.- TN 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennsylvania 96 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.