Acetic acid manufacturing · Texas

Eastman Texas City

Texas City, TX · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastman Texas City runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Acetic acid manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Eastman Texas City: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Acetic acid manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastman Texas City safety composite

Eastman Texas City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−1.1

2016→2021

Eastman Texas City injury rate improved

Eastman Texas City's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=0.5 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Texas City, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #62/103
  • PHOTO Italmatch USA Corpor…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Italmatch USA Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastman Texas City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastman Texas City averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Acetic acid manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Eastman Texas City TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.5 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Eastman Texas City falls in its industry

552 Acetic acid manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 103 Acetic acid manufacturing employers in Texas.

Eastman Texas City (124 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Eastman Texas City
Eastman Texas City (124 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Eastman Texas City has more employees than the Acetic acid manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2016 1.6 0.8 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TX · Texas City

552 Acetic acid manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 81 employers in Texas City, 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 Italmatch USA Corporation 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oxiteno Pasadena 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sistersville, West Virginia 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novozymes North America, Inc 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Citadel Drilling Ltd 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cisco Logistics 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Bellaire 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stoneridge Solar 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galveston Bay Refinery 1,677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates (TC) 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valero Refining Company - Texas City 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA HOUSTON HEALTHCARE MAINLAND 440 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Martin Companies, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Flooring Sales 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UMA, Geotechnical Construction, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE d'Escoto, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunnyvale Oakmead 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andrew Smith Company 124 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, 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.