Gloves, plastics, manufacturing · Texas

Handgards Hawkins

El Paso, TX · ~325 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Handgards Hawkins runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gloves, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Handgards Hawkins: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Gloves, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Handgards Hawkins safety composite

Handgards Hawkins scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Handgards Hawkins held a steady TCR band

Handgards Hawkins's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.5 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.5 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · El Paso, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #96/161
  • PHOTO BWAY Dayton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BWAY Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Handgards Hawkins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Handgards Hawkins averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Gloves, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Handgards Hawkins TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Handgards Hawkins falls in its industry

2,838 Gloves, plastics, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #96 safest of 161 Gloves, plastics, manufacturin employers in Texas.

Handgards Hawkins (325 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Handgards Hawkins
Handgards Hawkins (325 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Handgards Hawkins has more employees than the Gloves, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 3.3 2.2 6 0 0
2022 4.1 3.7 9 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 7 0 0
2020 3.5 3.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · TX · El Paso

2,838 Gloves, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 BWAY Dayton 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSI CA 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nifco America Corporation KY 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essentra Components - McClelland Ave 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Corporate 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - DALLAS TX 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinds - Fort Worth TX 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valco Instruments Company Inc 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Moving & Storage Co., Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pride Electric, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C-Sharpe Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Improveit Home Remodeling 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE FCx Performance Inc 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Greater LA 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Merchants North-Coxsackie 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radial Groveport Ohio 325 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.