Bar soaps manufacturing · Texas

Buff City Soap

Dallas, TX · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buff City Soap runs at 512% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Buff City Soap: 16.9 TCR = 512% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buff City Soap safety composite

Buff City Soap scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−6.9

2020→2024

Buff City Soap injury rate improved

Buff City Soap's TCR fell 6.9 from 23.3 in 2020 to 16.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 26.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=23.3 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=26.6 · 2024=16.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 512% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #25/26
  • PHOTO Botanie Natural Soap…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Botanie Natural Soap Inc (1.6 TCR gap)

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Buff City Soap in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buff City Soap averages 16.9 TCR (512% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buff City Soap TCR series: 2020=23.3 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=26.6 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Buff City Soap falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 26 Bar soaps manufacturing employers in Texas.

Buff City Soap (80 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buff City Soap
Buff City Soap (80 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Buff City Soap has fewer employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 16.4 4.1 7 1 0
2023 26.6 6.2 12 1 0
2022 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2021 10.5 0.0 5 0 0
2020 23.3 23.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · TX · Dallas

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Botanie Natural Soap Inc 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Chemical - TX 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stinger Chemical 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE STRC Oilfield Technology, LLC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Plaza 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE YSTA Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Office 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0077 Fremont 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Durgin and Crowell Lumber Company Inc. 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR True World Foods DC LLC 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Avenues Transitional Care Center 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St.Peters Manor Care Center 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raising Cane'S Chicken Fingers C342 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raising Cane'S Chicken Fingers C251 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 12th St 80 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.