Sandblasting, building exterior · Texas

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC.

La Porte, TX · ~47 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sandblasting, building exterior workplace, earning a grade C.

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC.: 2.6 TCR = 93% of Sandblasting, building exterior BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. safety composite

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC.: 2.9 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 2.9 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · La Porte, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #163/206
  • PHOTO Southway Crane & Rig…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southway Crane & Rigging - North Augusta Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. averages 2.6 TCR (93% of the Sandblasting, building exterior BLS benchmark).

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

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.5 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=3.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. falls in its industry

1,634 Sandblasting, building exterio establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #163 safest of 206 Sandblasting, building exterio employers in Texas.

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. (47 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC.
Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. (47 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Gulf States Protective Coatings, INC. has fewer employees than the Sandblasting, building exterior median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.2 2.1 2 0 1
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · TX · La Porte

1,634 Sandblasting, building exterior employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 170 employers in La Porte, 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 Southway Crane & Rigging - North Augusta Branch 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hercules Fence Company Inc. - Norfolk 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida Detention Systems, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gorgas Fossil Plant 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blackstone Dilworth 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartley Feeders 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handley Station 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. Pearsall Energy Center 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stronghold, Ltd. 2,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stronghold Specialty, Ltd. 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR TURN 2 Specialty Companies 1,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dashiell Corp/Dacon Corp 973 FTE
NAT-TCR Arizona West Builders and Communications, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollidaysburg Hometown Market 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvey Building Products- Londonderry Manufacturing 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Pacific Corporation 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE KMT - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addiosn (Innomag) 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSC Services 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #596 47 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: 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.