Industry profile · NAICS 327992

Graphite, natural (e.g., ground, pulverized, refined, blended), manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 107 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

107
Employers
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
817
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Graphite, natural (e.g., ground, pulverized, refined, blended), manufacturing average 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

3.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
107
employers reporting
817
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Graphite, natural (e.g., ground, pulverized, refined, blended), manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Graphite, natural (e.g., ground, pulverized, refined, blended), manufacturing sector (NAICS 327992) encompasses 107 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 817 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.0 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 3.0 is below 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 Graphite, natural (e.g., ground, pulverized, refined, blended), 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

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Colorcon Functional Packaging Belen, NM B 1.8
Burgess Pigment Company Sandersville, GA B 1.7
TMS Auburn Auburn, NY B 1.7
TMS Beaumont Beaumont, TX B 1.7
TMS Jackson Jackson, TN B 1.7
REC Silicon Moses Lakeq, WA A 1.6
Edw. C. Levy - Ohio Canton, OH A 1.6
Sarver Seven Fields, PA A 1.6
Polymer Valley Chemicals Macon, GA A 1.6
CORMETECH - Cleveland Manufacturing Facility Cleveland, TN A 1.5
Hemlcok Semiconductor Operations, LLC Hemlock, MI A 1.5
Levy Environmental Services Company - Columbia City Columbia City, IN A 1.5
JM Huber Marblehead IL Quincy, IL A 1.5
Irvine Daimler Irvine, CA A 1.5
TMS - Reading Reading, PA A 1.5
Edw. C. Levy Co. - Detroit Plant 6 Dearborn, MI A 1.4
SDI Pittsboro Pittsboro, IN A 1.3
Pueblo Seven Fields, PA A 1.3
Harsco Butler Butler, PA A 1.3
SDI Pittsboro Seven Fields, PA A 1.2
TMS Jewett Jewett, TX A 1.2
New Iberia Plant New Iberia, TX A 1.2
BASF Attapulgus Site Attapulgus, GA A 1.1
Skyway Cement Chicago, IL A 1.1
TMS Gallatin Gallatin, TN A 1.1
Levy Environmental Services Company - Charleston Huger, SC A 1.1
Edw. C. Levy Co. - Detroit Plant 1 Detroit, MI A 1.1
Levy Environmental Services Company - Fulton Delta, OH A 1.1
Harsco Sarver Sarver, PA A 1.0
Harsco Metals & Minerals Muscatine, IA A 1.0
TMS Axis Axis, AL A 1.0
Cormetech Cleveland Cleveland, TN A 1.0
Levy Environmental Services Company - Butler Butler, IN A 0.9
Syrah Technologies Vidalia, La. 70735, LA A 0.9
REC Silicon Moses Lake, WA A 0.8
Mansfield Seven Fields, PA A 0.8
TMS Ecorse Ecorse, MI A 0.8
ASA Newport Newport, AR A 0.8
Midlothian Seven Fields, PA A 0.8
OTK Calvert Seven Fields, PA A 0.7
Tms - Brs Osceola, AR A 0.7
SSAB Iowa Seven Fields, PA A 0.7
CORMETECH - Durham Manufacturing Facility Durham, NC A 0.6
Isolatek International Stanhope, NJ A 0.6
BASF Attapulgus Attapulgus, GA A 0.6
Whitesville Mill Service Crawfordsville, IN A 0.5
Savannah Operations Savannah, GA A 0.5
Butler Seven Fields, PA C 0.0
Hertford Seven Fields, PA C 0.0
Koppel Seven Fields, PA C 0.0
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This sector averages 3.0 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.