Ceramic fiber manufacturing · New York

Unifrax Pirson

Tonawanda, NY · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unifrax Pirson runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ceramic fiber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Unifrax Pirson: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unifrax Pirson safety composite

Unifrax Pirson scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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 Pirson: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Unifrax Pirson's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Ingevity Georgia LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingevity Georgia LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unifrax Pirson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unifrax Pirson averages 1.4 TCR (44% 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 Pirson TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Unifrax Pirson falls in its industry

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #4 safest of 7 Ceramic fiber manufacturing employers in New York.

Unifrax Pirson (45 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Pirson
Unifrax Pirson (45 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Unifrax Pirson has fewer 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
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 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 Ingevity Georgia LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle Oxford 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LALC Custom Building Products 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Carlisle Facility 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 827 - Barton Entertainment Co., LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schum-Acres Dairy OPS, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne County Fruit Sales, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8986 Locations 45 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 Meijer Store #259 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoover Elementary 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoyle's Tie & Axle, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health Pr 120 Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rebar International Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Operating NOC Shop 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belvidere Police Department 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rick Case Hyundai (Cleveland) 45 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: 2020, 2019. 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.