Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing · Ohio

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax

Columbiana, OH · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax safety composite

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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)
C 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax: 1.9 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.9 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Columbiana, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #20/48
  • PHOTO Cherokee Brick
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherokee Brick (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax falls in its industry

307 Castable refractories, nonclay establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 48 Castable refractories, nonclay employers in Ohio.

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax (58 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax
Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax (58 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Specialty Ceramics Inc./Unifrax has more employees than the Castable refractories, nonclay, manufact 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
2024 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · OH · Columbiana

307 Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 40 employers in Columbiana, OH · 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 Cherokee Brick 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gresham 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monarch Ceramic Tile, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowerston Plant 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spring Meadow Farms 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspire Energy 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC - N Ohio 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCY 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - YOU 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Envelope 1 Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHD Manufacturing, INc. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Alzheimer's Center 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Newly Weds Foods, LLC. - Erlanger 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 148 Cahokia 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0532 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Point of Woodward 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Green LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products TNS 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dual Language School 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brawo USA, Inc 58 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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