Street lighting fixtures (except traffic signals) manufacturing · Texas

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas

Garland, TX · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Street lighting fixtures (except traffic signals) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Street lighting fixtures (except traffic signals) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas safety composite

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−2.6

2018→2021

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas injury rate improved

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.1 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335129 · Garland, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Musco Sports Lightin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Musco Sports Lighting, LLC / Des Moines (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Street lighting fixtures (except traffic signals) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas TCR series: 2018=5.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas falls in its industry

55 Street lighting fixtures (exce establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #3 safest of 8 Street lighting fixtures (exce employers in Texas.

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas (39 employees, TCR 1.9) 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. - Work Area Texas
Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas (39 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area Texas has fewer employees than the Street lighting fixtures (except traffic median and a lower 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
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335129 · TX · Garland

55 Street lighting fixtures (except traffic signals) 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 Musco Sports Lighting, LLC / Des Moines 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lighting Innovations, Inc. DBA FC Lighting, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altronic 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Q-Tran, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dumas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Wink TX 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAR SOUTH MINING LLC 39 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 REELEX Packaging Solutions, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Perkins 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UP 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Chula Vista 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pa157-Yapi-Bradford County, Pa157 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howard University Hospital EM 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHS 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE VRH 39 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.