Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · Kentucky
Sorbent Products Co, Inc
Louisville, KY · ~152 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Sorbent Products Co, Inc runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 52
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Sorbent Products Co, Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.5 to the Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (138% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Sorbent Products Co, Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Sorbent Products Co, Inc falls in its industry
196 Melt blown nonwoven fabrics ma establishmentsSafer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.
Trend analysis for Sorbent Products Co, Inc
Between 2016 and 2024, Sorbent Products Co, Inc's Total Case Rate improved from 3.3 to 1.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 51% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 0.8, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 8.1, a spread of 7.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 9 reporting years, Sorbent Products Co, Inc recorded 52 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 52 injuries shown on this page for Sorbent Products Co, Inc are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 313230 - Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 252,023 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sorbent Products Co, Inc (this establishment) | 4.55 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 313230 |
| Kentucky state avg (all industries) | 4.39 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sorbent Products Co, Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 10 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 8.1 | 6.3 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.3 | 5.1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Sorbent Products Co, Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 138% of the Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing benchmark, Sorbent Products Co, Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.