Lactic acid manufacturing · Nebraska

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion

Blair, NE · ~83 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lactic acid manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Lactic acid manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion safety composite

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Blair, NE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Optima Belle LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Optima Belle LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Purac America Inc. dba Corbion in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Purac America Inc. dba Corbion averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Lactic acid manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Purac America Inc. dba Corbion falls in its industry

552 Lactic acid manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Lactic acid manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion (83 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Purac America Inc. dba Corbion
Purac America Inc. dba Corbion (83 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Purac America Inc. dba Corbion has more employees than the Lactic acid manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.4 2.2 2 1 0
2022 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2021 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 5.9 1.2 5 0 0
2019 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · NE · Blair

552 Lactic acid manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 43 employers in Blair, NE · 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 Optima Belle LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFG Kimberly Park 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyventive LLC D140 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MilliporeSigma - DEKALB 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ray Martin Company Inc 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Communications Sps Omaha - 0222-NEOM2 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monolith Nebraska LLC - OC1 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Hydraulics Co. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blair, DC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill - Blair 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Plains Communications 448 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Rome Huffaker Road - Foss Plant 1 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3A Composites USA, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellingham District Office-Conservation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Fort Dodge 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carrigan Brothers, LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ignite Medical Resort Round Rock LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salad And Go 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kihei, HI - Mokulele 83 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.