Acetylene manufacturing · Texas

Bellville Acetylene Plant

Bellville, TX · ~162 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellville Acetylene Plant runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bellville Acetylene Plant: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellville Acetylene Plant safety composite

Bellville Acetylene Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2021→2024

Bellville Acetylene Plant injury rate improved

Bellville Acetylene Plant's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.6 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.6 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Bellville, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Gonzales
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gonzales (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bellville Acetylene Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellville Acetylene Plant averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bellville Acetylene Plant TCR series: 2021=3.6 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Bellville Acetylene Plant falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Texas.

Bellville Acetylene Plant (162 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellville Acetylene Plant
Bellville Acetylene Plant (162 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Bellville Acetylene Plant has more employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.7 1.7 2 1 0
2023 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · TX · Bellville

295 Acetylene manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Bellville, 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 Gonzales 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Home City Ice Company - Mack - 301 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Santa Clara ASU 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatfield 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCEI Houston Office 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE HMT LLC - Baytown 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electra Link, Inc. Spring 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&L Electric Company, Inc. 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bellville TX 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Bernard Electric Cooperative, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR K94 AER - Bellville 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHI ST JOSEPH BELLVILLE HOSPITAL 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Tacoma WA Yard 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1735 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Chair 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Copper State Metals LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Armstrong World Industries Hilliard Plant 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro Kleen Industrial Services, Inc. - Lancaster 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAZ Parking Nevada, LLC 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kagome Foods Inc 162 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, 2022, 2021. 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.