Carbon black manufacturing · Texas

Orion Engineered Carbons

Name: Orion Engineered Carbons Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Orange, TX · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Orion Engineered Carbons runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Orion Engineered Carbons: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orion Engineered Carbons safety composite

Orion Engineered Carbons scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2023→2024

Orion Engineered Carbons injury rate improved

Orion Engineered Carbons's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #19/47
PHOTO PALM
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PALM (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.8
PALM

0.8
BASF Erie Site

0.8
Battleground P

0.8
PQ Corporation

0.8

What this shows Orion Engineered Carbons averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Orion Engineered Carbons TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Orion Engineered Carbons falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 47 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Texas.

Orion Engineered Carbons (40 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Orion Engineered Carbons has fewer 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2023	1.6	1.6	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · TX · Orange

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 83 employers in Orange, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PALM	LAVERGNE, TN	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BASF Erie Site	ERIE, PA	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Battleground Plant	LA PORTE, TX	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PQ Corporation- Joliet	JOLIET, IL	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass	GRANBURY	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cook Canyon Ranch	RANGER	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Frontier Feedyard	SPEARMAN	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kurten Location	BRYAN	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Dow Chemical Company - Orange, Texas	Orange	859 FTE
CITY-NEAR	International Paper Orange Mill	Orange	484 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Duphil Corporate Office	Orange	357 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Golden Triangle Polymers	Orange	328 FTE
NAT-TCR	Millville	Millville, NJ	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Life Skills Training Center, Inc.	Le Mars, IA	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Milhaus Construction LLC	Indianapolis, IN	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Copperweld Bimetallics LLC - Brentwood	Brentwood, TN	0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	FV Clinics-Lakeville	Lakeville, MN	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Adol Outpatient Progrm Mplwd	Maplewood, MN	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DD Ford Construction, LP	Santa Barbara, CA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Elexco, Inc.	Seymour, WI	40 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.