Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories

Worcester, MA · ~237 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories safety composite

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2018

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories injury rate improved

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2018=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Resco New Castle
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Resco New Castle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories falls in its industry

307 Firebrick, clay refractories, establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Firebrick, clay refractories, employers in Massachusetts.

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories (237 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories
Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories (237 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Saint-Gobain Ceramic Material, High Performance Refractories has more employees than the Firebrick, clay refractories, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 2.8 1.6 7 0 0
2016 4.3 1.3 1 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · MA · Worcester

307 Firebrick, clay refractories, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, MA · 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 Resco New Castle 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa Brick Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNZ Materials, Inc. Billerica Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vesuvius USA Wurtland Kentucky 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MA Billerica Office 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROCHE BROS - MARSHFIELD 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 100007 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE 249588-WOBURN PO 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 10395 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Savannah 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR StoneHouse Marketing 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maple Donuts 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Port St. Lucie 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmington 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shared Service Office - Moore, OK 237 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: 2018, 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.