Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, solid rubber) manufacturing · Arkansas

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant

Texarkana, AR · ~1,744 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, solid rubber) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, solid rubber) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant safety composite

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 36% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

−0.9

2018→2021

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant injury rate improved

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant's TCR fell 0.9 from 5.4 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2021=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326211 · Texarkana, AR ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P23
  • PHOTO Robinson Innovations…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 212 inj
  • SIZE ~1,744 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Robinson Innovations (Oklahoma) LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, solid rubber) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant falls in its industry

114 Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-p establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant (1,744 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant
Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant (1,744 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant has more employees than the Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2021 4.4 2.7 73 8 1
2019 5.3 3.1 80 14 0
2018 5.4 2.5 59 32 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326211 · AR · Texarkana

114 Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi-pneumatic, solid rubber) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Texarkana, AR · 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 Robinson Innovations (Oklahoma) LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wonderland Tire 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Tire 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATW Elkhart 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baxter Regional Medical Center 1,746 FTE
STATE-SIZE PTL-West Memphis 1,778 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Bluff Jeff Pkwy Plant 1,709 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-03010001-030101 1,792 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Refrigerated Transport 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR 468 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 468 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith-Blair by Xylem 290 FTE
NAT-TCR UniversalCommissary 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Manorcare Monroeville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Packaging 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneworks LTD - NC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE District 3 1,744 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nymas - Maspeth 1,744 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holy Redeemer Hospital 1,744 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth East Orlando 1,744 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: 2021, 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.