Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Texas

EPC Lubbock

Lubbock, TX · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EPC Lubbock runs at 411% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

EPC Lubbock: 9.0 TCR = 411% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EPC Lubbock safety composite

EPC Lubbock scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−18.1

2017→2018

EPC Lubbock injury rate improved

EPC Lubbock's TCR fell 18.1 from 18.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=18.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Lubbock, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 411% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/24
  • PHOTO Joshen Paper & Packa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joshen Paper & Packaging of PA (0.1 TCR gap)

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EPC Lubbock in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EPC Lubbock averages 9.0 TCR (411% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

EPC Lubbock TCR series: 2017=18.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where EPC Lubbock falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 24 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Texas.

EPC Lubbock (71 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate EPC Lubbock
EPC Lubbock (71 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

EPC Lubbock has more employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 18.1 9.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · TX · Lubbock

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 482 employers in Lubbock, 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 Joshen Paper & Packaging of PA 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston, SC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Retail Services, LLC (Bensalem) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RJ Schinner Branch 18 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Andrews 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYSTEM OPERATIONS 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Location 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR A01 Covenant Medical Center 3,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-20049000 2,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR FALCON HEALTHCARE INC DBA INTERIM HEALTHCARE 2,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Health System 1,761 FTE
NAT-TCR Artesia General Hospital 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Greendale Forest Nursing & Rehab 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Case Goods/Corporate Office 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt House & Hyatt Place Denver DT 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAH Dougherty Hospice House 71 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: 2018, 2017. 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.