Industry profile · NAICS 333994
Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing
Workplace injury rates across 111 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 111
- Employers
- 4.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- BLS benchmark
- 1,455
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing average 4.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.3 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.
- 4.1
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.3
- BLS national benchmark
- 111
- employers reporting
- 1,455
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing Safety Data Reveals
The Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing sector (NAICS 333994) encompasses 111 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,455 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.1 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 1 of 3| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skutt Ceramic Products | Portland, OR | F | 14.8 |
| Baker Furnace | Brea, CA | F | 11.2 |
| Granco Clark Inc | Belding, MI | F | 11.1 |
| Warehouse | Waterville, OH | F | 10.6 |
| HeatTek West Allis | West Allis, WI | F | 10.5 |
| Gasbarre Products - Sinterite Division | St. Marys, PA | F | 9.7 |
| Consolidated Engineering Company | Kennesaw, GA | F | 9.5 |
| Sinterite | St. Marys, PA | F | 9.2 |
| Ajax Tocco Magnethermic North Canton | North Canton, OH | F | 8.3 |
| Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. | Farmington Hills, MI | F | 8.3 |
| Solar Products Inc. | Pompton Lakes, NJ | F | 7.8 |
| Thermal Engineering Corporation | Columbia, SC | F | 7.8 |
| ProTech Thermal Services | Norco, CA | F | 7.5 |
| Wisconsin Oven | East Troy, WI | F | 7.3 |
| Duca Manufacturing | Boardman, OH | F | 7.2 |
| BBC Industries Inc | Pacific, MO | F | 7.1 |
| Tempco | Wood Dale, IL | F | 6.9 |
| Matthews International-Environmental Solutions / Apopka | Apopka, FL | F | 6.7 |
| Abbott Furnace Company | St Marys, PA | F | 6.7 |
| Dometic Corporation | Greenbrier, TN | D | 6.6 |
| Thermex Thermatron, LP | Louisville, KY | D | 6.5 |
| Souderton | Souderton, PA | D | 6.3 |
| Solar Products Inc. - E1T | Pompton Lakes, NJ | D | 6.3 |
| Belco Industries Inc. | Belding, MI | D | 6.3 |
| Redline Chambers | Salt Lake City, UT | D | 6.3 |
| Steelman Industries Inc. | Kilgore, TX | D | 6.2 |
| THERMCRAFT | Winston Salem, NC | D | 6.0 |
| The Grieve Corporation | Round Lake, IL | D | 5.8 |
| J.L. Becker Company | Plymouth, MI | D | 5.6 |
| Heatron-200 Commercial | Leavenworth, KS | D | 5.5 |
| Inductotherm Corp. | Rancocas, NJ | D | 5.4 |
| The Mellen Company, Inc. | Concord, NH | D | 5.3 |
| XDS Holdings | Neenah, WI | D | 5.2 |
| Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Albertville | Albertville, AL | D | 5.1 |
| Perceptive Industries - Plainwell, MI | Plainwell, MI | D | 5.1 |
| Heatron-3000 Wilson | Leavenworth, KS | D | 5.0 |
| Phoenix Induction Corporation | South Lyon, MI | D | 4.9 |
| Westran Thermal Processing, LLC | South Beloit, IL | D | 4.7 |
| TPI Corporation | Gray, TN | D | 4.6 |
| Precision Thermal Processing | Clintonville, WI | D | 4.5 |
| Perceptive Industries Inc | Plainwell, MI | D | 4.5 |
| Kanthal | Concord, NC | D | 4.5 |
| International Thermal Systems | Milwaukee, WI | D | 4.4 |
| Industrial Heater Corp. | Cheshire, CT | D | 4.3 |
| AVS Inc. | Ayer, MA | D | 4.2 |
| Chromalox | Ogden, UT | C | 3.6 |
| Solar Manufacturing Inc. | Sellersville, PA | C | 3.5 |
| TPS/Lindberg | New Columbia, PA | C | 3.5 |
| Cherry Valley | Cherry Valley, IL | C | 3.5 |
| Tps, LLC | New Columbia, PA | C | 3.5 |
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