Helicopters manufacturing · Texas

Bell - Plant 5

Grand Prairie, TX · ~641 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell - Plant 5 runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Helicopters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bell - Plant 5: 0.9 TCR = 29% of Helicopters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell - Plant 5 safety composite

Bell - Plant 5 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2018→2024

Bell - Plant 5 injury rate improved

Bell - Plant 5's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.5 in 2018 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.5 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Grand Prairie, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #17/33
  • PHOTO Lockheed Martin Corp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~641 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lockheed Martin Corporation US UT Vineyard S Geneva Rd (3970) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell - Plant 5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell - Plant 5 averages 0.9 TCR (29% of the Helicopters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bell - Plant 5 TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bell - Plant 5 falls in its industry

390 Helicopters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 33 Helicopters manufacturing employers in Texas.

Bell - Plant 5 (641 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bell - Plant 5
Bell - Plant 5 (641 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Bell - Plant 5 has more employees than the Helicopters manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 1.0 0.3 6 0 0
2023 0.3 0.2 1 1 0
2020 1.3 0.4 8 2 0
2019 0.6 0.3 4 0 0
2018 1.5 0.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · TX · Grand Prairie

390 Helicopters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 405 employers in Grand Prairie, 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 Lockheed Martin Corporation US UT Vineyard S Geneva Rd (3970) 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - El Mirage 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US FL Jupiter 17900 Beeline Hw (5235) 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGAS-R486 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TX Lake Front North 641 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Kay Inc 641 FTE
STATE-SIZE 480421-AUSTIN TX P&DC 641 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Services (Smith County) 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Grand Prairie Campus (1435) 3,544 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly-America, L.P. 2,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly America 2,318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - 4355 Grand Prairie, TX 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Jtekt North America 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NOVA Commercial Interiors, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake City Trucking 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bhi- Maple Knoll Vi 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SAN5 641 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Corn Plant 641 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Services Departments 641 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Greensboro- Fire Department 641 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.