Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing · Texas

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX

Garland, TX · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX safety composite

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX held a steady TCR band

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.5 in 2022 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.5 · 2023=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335129 · Garland, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Alight
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alight (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX falls in its industry

55 Floodlights (i.e., lighting fi establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #5 safest of 8 Floodlights (i.e., lighting fi employers in Texas.

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX (64 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX
Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX (64 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hill & Smith Inc - Garland TX has more employees than the Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) ma 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
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2022 3.5 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335129 · TX · Garland

55 Floodlights (i.e., lighting fixtures) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 316 employers in Garland, 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 Alight 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acuity Brands - Oceanside 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Julian A. McDermott Corp. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Briggs & Stratton - Holdrege Facility 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mill Creek 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Palestine Hatchery 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT HACTCHERY 2 & 3 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TGNR East Texas LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDA2 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Comany Garland 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osburn Contractors 933 FTE
NAT-TCR Porex Technologies Corporation-Michigan 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Electric 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Arkansas Reed Lane Plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid South Sales Jonesboro 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandler 2018 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuscaloosa 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minoa Elementary School 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exhale Battery Wharf 64 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. 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.