Foam polystyrene products manufacturing · Texas

Dart Container Waxahachie

Waxahachie, TX · ~876 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dart Container Waxahachie runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam polystyrene products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Dart Container Waxahachie: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dart Container Waxahachie safety composite

Dart Container Waxahachie scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

Dart Container Waxahachie injury rate improved

Dart Container Waxahachie's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.7 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Waxahachie, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO Food Merchandising :…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 156 inj
  • SIZE ~876 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Food Merchandising : BEECH ISLAND (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dart Container Waxahachie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dart Container Waxahachie averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dart Container Waxahachie TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Dart Container Waxahachie falls in its industry

260 Foam polystyrene products manu establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 23 Foam polystyrene products manu employers in Texas.

Dart Container Waxahachie (876 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dart Container Waxahachie
Dart Container Waxahachie (876 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Dart Container Waxahachie has more employees than the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.8 1.1 17 0 0
2023 1.3 0.7 9 1 0
2022 0.7 0.2 5 1 0
2021 1.4 1.1 10 1 0
2020 2.2 1.7 17 0 0
2019 3.3 2.0 28 0 0
2018 2.6 2.4 22 1 0
2017 2.2 1.8 21 0 0
2016 2.7 2.0 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · TX · Waxahachie

260 Foam polystyrene products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 108 employers in Waxahachie, 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 Food Merchandising : BEECH ISLAND 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Roofing Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Molded Products - Denver 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekni-Plex, Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tubular Services LLC 876 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGI Homes Corporate, LLC 877 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Facility Solutions 877 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parker Wellbore 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2045-00010W 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie 862 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00010W WAXAHACHIE 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walgreens Waxahachie Distribution Center 718 FTE
NAT-TCR Beckley 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR T R Miller Mill Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Zeus Orangeburg 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Asf 415 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CGH Medical Center 876 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kywon - Richwood 876 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health St Joseph Warren Hospital 876 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exide Technologies 876 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, 2019, 2018, 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.