Ceramic fiber manufacturing · New York

Unifrax I LLC

Tonawanda, NY · ~230 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unifrax I LLC runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ceramic fiber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Unifrax I LLC: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unifrax I LLC safety composite

Unifrax I LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Unifrax I LLC: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Unifrax I LLC's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327999 · Tonawanda, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Anchor - Fredonia
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anchor - Fredonia (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 2.0 TCR (62% of the Ceramic fiber 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: 2016=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Unifrax I LLC falls in its industry

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Ceramic fiber manufacturing employers in New York.

Unifrax I LLC (230 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Unifrax I LLC
Unifrax I LLC (230 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Unifrax I LLC has more employees than the Ceramic fiber manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 2.1 1.3 4 1 0
2023 2.8 1.2 6 1 0
2022 3.3 2.9 7 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327999 · NY · Tonawanda

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 Anchor - Fredonia 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Diamond, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruita 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tremco CPG Inc. (Dryvit Systems) 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DDS Constructors - Energy Services 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chapin International 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neptune Ave 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fiber Instrument Sales, Inc. 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR World's Finest Chocolate 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HEW9 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Venecia Logistica, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1841 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dysart 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midvale Family Resource Center 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WTX4 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point Dairy Products LLC 230 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, 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.