Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Indiana

POET Biorefining - Portland

Portland, IN · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Biorefining - Portland runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

POET Biorefining - Portland: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining - Portland safety composite

POET Biorefining - Portland scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−2.1

2016→2024

POET Biorefining - Portland injury rate improved

POET Biorefining - Portland's TCR fell 2.1 from 2.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Portland, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/20
  • PHOTO NuGen Energy
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NuGen Energy (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Biorefining - Portland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Biorefining - Portland averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET Biorefining - Portland TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=2 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=5 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining - Portland falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 20 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Indiana.

POET Biorefining - Portland (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate POET Biorefining - Portland
POET Biorefining - Portland (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining - Portland has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.3 2.1 1 1 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IN · Portland

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 23 employers in Portland, IN · 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 NuGen Energy 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louis Dreyfus Company - Grand Junction 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining Caro, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET BIOREFINING - COON RAPIDS, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Star Farms LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall, IN 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Field Services LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patoka Lake Regional Water & Sewer District 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mexican Original Portland Plnt 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2388 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2388 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR ATI Forged Products 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Browder Veneer Works, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Autoneum Bloomsburg 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Omnilift Allentown 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Munson Medical Group 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ICC Oxnard 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herington Facility 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverland Energy Cooperative 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 45 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.