Carbon black manufacturing · Texas

Sunray Plant

Sunray, TX · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunray Plant runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sunray Plant: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunray Plant safety composite

Sunray Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sunray Plant: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2023

Sunray Plant's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Sunray, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #27/47
  • PHOTO Cleveland
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cleveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunray Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunray Plant averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunray Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sunray Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 47 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Texas.

Sunray Plant (74 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunray Plant
Sunray Plant (74 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Sunray Plant has more employees than the Carbon black manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · TX · Sunray

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Sunray, TX · 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 Cleveland 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Natrium LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOLVAY FLUORIDES 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Falls Plant 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acrosa Crushed Concrete 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolk Station-124 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft. Bend Service Center CP18 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Headquarters and Corporate Services 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valero McKee 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Carbon Company- Sunray Plant 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Carbon Company Sunray 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crownover Farms dba Lone Star Family Farms 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Stellar Contracting Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mi-Tech Services, Inc. - Madison 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fujifilm Dimatix 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : Manitowoc PAR 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Station Exchange Senior Care 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Shoreview 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Worthington 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luther Brookdale Mazda Mitsubishi 74 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: 2023, 2022, 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.