Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors · Texas

Balfour Powers Embrodiry

Waco, TX · ~66 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

Balfour Powers Embrodiry runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Balfour Powers Embrodiry: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balfour Powers Embrodiry safety composite

Balfour Powers Embrodiry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Balfour Powers Embrodiry: 4.9 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2017

Balfour Powers Embrodiry's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.9 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315210 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Beehive Clothing Sal…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beehive Clothing Salt Lake (0.2 TCR gap)

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Balfour Powers Embrodiry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balfour Powers Embrodiry averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Balfour Powers Embrodiry TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Balfour Powers Embrodiry falls in its industry

72 Caps and gowns, academic, cut establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Caps and gowns, academic, cut employers in Texas.

Balfour Powers Embrodiry (66 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Balfour Powers Embrodiry
Balfour Powers Embrodiry (66 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Balfour Powers Embrodiry has more employees than the Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew ap median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2017 7.1 5.3 4 0 0
2016 4.9 3.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315210 · TX · Waco

72 Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 Beehive Clothing Salt Lake 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CrewBoss Lumberton 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Athletic Wear, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEKRI - Pineville 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stratford Feedyard 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klesel 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE BP&L INDUSTRIES ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Chemical Company 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Regional International Air Hub (Caejs) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anniston (Alann) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR United Precast Industries 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emco Wheaton Retail Corp. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Fredericktown Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Walnut Creek 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE VC047 - VCI - Las Vegas 66 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: 2017, 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.