Castable refractories, clay, manufacturing · Kansas

Unifrax I LLC.

Council Grove, KS · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unifrax I LLC. runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Castable refractories, clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Unifrax I LLC.: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Castable refractories, clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unifrax I LLC. safety composite

Unifrax I LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2020→2021

Unifrax I LLC. injury rate improved

Unifrax I LLC.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 7.4 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.4 · 2021=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Council Grove, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Marseilles plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marseilles plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unifrax I LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unifrax I LLC. averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Castable refractories, clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Unifrax I LLC. TCR series: 2020=7.4 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Unifrax I LLC. falls in its industry

307 Castable refractories, clay, m establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Castable refractories, clay, m employers in Kansas.

Unifrax I LLC. (89 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Unifrax I LLC.
Unifrax I LLC. (89 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Unifrax I LLC. has more employees than the Castable refractories, clay, manufacturi median and a higher 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
2021 4.6 3.5 4 0 0
2020 7.4 3.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · KS · Council Grove

307 Castable refractories, clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Council Grove, KS · 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 Marseilles plant 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red River Brick Union City 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Refractories, Inc (Robinson Plant) 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red River Brick Mineral Wells East 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walters-Morgan Construction, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Electric LLC. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Crane and Rigging, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Molded Products a Division of Atlas Roofing Corporation 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morris County Hospital 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rex Materials of Kansas, LLC 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversicare of Council Grove 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR DIVERSICARE OF COUNCIL GROVE LLC dbaDiversicare of Council Grove 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Lindsey Road Main Office 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stavemill Crossing (#33) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalinos Berry Farms, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanford Store 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jennings Plant 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amen Ranch Loc. #34 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amara Nursing Facility 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-30333) 89 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: 2021, 2020. 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.