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
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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.

Sorbent Products Co, Inc: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sorbent Products Co, Inc safety composite

Sorbent Products Co, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2024

Sorbent Products Co, Inc injury rate improved

Sorbent Products Co, Inc's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.3 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO MP Global Products NA
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MP Global Products NA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sorbent Products Co, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sorbent Products Co, Inc averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sorbent Products Co, Inc TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sorbent Products Co, Inc falls in its industry

191 Melt blown nonwoven fabrics ma establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sorbent Products Co, Inc (152 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sorbent Products Co, Inc
Sorbent Products Co, Inc (152 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sorbent Products Co, Inc has more employees than the Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.6 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · KY · Louisville

191 Melt blown nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 MP Global Products NA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aetna Felt Corp 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Readycare - Waukegan 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA Rome Kirton - Foss Plant 3 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gates Corporation-Elizabethtown 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Battery Mfg. 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0464 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Food City Store #458 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR DeSalvo Construction Company, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LTX 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks - Operations 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monongahela Foodland 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bill Whitters Construction Company 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Metal Products Co. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pasadena Plant 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Light Cardiology 152 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.