Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, manufacturing · North Carolina

SGL Carbon - Morganton

Morganton, NC · ~149 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SGL Carbon - Morganton runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

SGL Carbon - Morganton: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SGL Carbon - Morganton safety composite

SGL Carbon - Morganton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

SGL Carbon - Morganton held a steady TCR band

SGL Carbon - Morganton's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.1 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.1 · 2018=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335991 · Morganton, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Helwig Carbon Produc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Helwig Carbon Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SGL Carbon - Morganton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SGL Carbon - Morganton averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SGL Carbon - Morganton TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where SGL Carbon - Morganton falls in its industry

93 Brush blocks, carbon or molded establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
SGL Carbon - Morganton (149 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate SGL Carbon - Morganton
SGL Carbon - Morganton (149 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

SGL Carbon - Morganton has more employees than the Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 5.3 4.1 9 0 0
2017 5.1 3.2 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335991 · NC · Morganton

93 Brush blocks, carbon or molded graphite, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, NC · 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 Helwig Carbon Products, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Urbix, Inc. Plant 0 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tokai Carbon GE - Hickman Facility 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbon Conversions 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Greensboro 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Modern Electric Company, INC 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Air Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Domino's Supply Chain Center- North Carolina 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Buildings and Electrical Maintenance- Traffic Electrical Maintenance Services 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - FW 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City (Ksgar) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland Gateway (Ohcgf) 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE LifeShare Blood Center - Shreveport 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE WilmingtonDC 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 7B 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux City (Iasio) 149 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, 2017. 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.