Assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing · Georgia

Dystar Dalton

Dalton, GA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dystar Dalton runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dystar Dalton: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dystar Dalton safety composite

Dystar Dalton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dystar Dalton: 4.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2017

Dystar Dalton's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Lubrizol Advanced Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dystar Dalton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dystar Dalton averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dystar Dalton TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dystar Dalton falls in its industry

66 Assistants, textile and leathe establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Assistants, textile and leathe employers in Georgia.

Dystar Dalton (24 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dystar Dalton
Dystar Dalton (24 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Dystar Dalton has fewer employees than the Assistants, textile and leather finishin median and a higher 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
2017 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · GA · Dalton

66 Assistants, textile and leather finishing, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Chemical, Inc 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Turf LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Douglas Hatchery 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Zephyhills, FL 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Harborview 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Caliber, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Mira Loma-Building 1 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPP Cambridge 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Mineral Products - Anniston 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AEM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Inn & Suites 24 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: 2017, 2016. 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.