Carbon black manufacturing · Oklahoma

Ponca City Plant

Ponca City, OK · ~113 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ponca City Plant runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ponca City Plant: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ponca City Plant safety composite

Ponca City Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Ponca City Plant: 1.8 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2023

Ponca City Plant's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.8 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Ponca City, OK AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Quapaw
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quapaw (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ponca City Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ponca City Plant averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ponca City Plant TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ponca City Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Oklahoma.

Ponca City Plant (113 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Ponca City Plant
Ponca City Plant (113 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Ponca City Plant has more employees than the Carbon black manufacturing median and a higher 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
2023 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · OK · Ponca City

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ponca City, OK · 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 Quapaw 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lanxess West Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imerys Steelcasting USA 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGC Pure Chemicals America Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GP Production (Oklahoma) 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-M Foods, LLC 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teal-Jones Lumber Antlers 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letica - Oklahoma 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dorada Foods 724 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ponca City Refinery 658 FTE
CITY-NEAR 823 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 823 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Atlanta Galleria 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Munters Selma 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aloft Asheville NC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Geneva Pipe & Precast - SLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE J.C. Dillon, Inc. 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Rehabilitation Center 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anning-Johnson Company Virginia 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Restore Health Rehabilitation Center 113 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: 2023, 2022. 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.