Insulation contractors · Texas

Hinkle Insulation

Austin, TX · ~103 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hinkle Insulation runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Insulation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Hinkle Insulation: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Insulation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hinkle Insulation safety composite

Hinkle Insulation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hinkle Insulation: 2.3 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Hinkle Insulation's TCR rose 4.4 from 2.3 in 2022 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #103/144
  • PHOTO Hayles and Howe, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hayles and Howe, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hinkle Insulation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hinkle Insulation averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Insulation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Hinkle Insulation TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Hinkle Insulation falls in its industry

1,613 Insulation contractors establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 144 Insulation contractors employers in Texas.

Hinkle Insulation (103 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hinkle Insulation
Hinkle Insulation (103 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Hinkle Insulation has more employees than the Insulation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 6.7 5.8 7 0 0
2023 4.5 2.7 5 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · TX · Austin

1,613 Insulation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 Hayles and Howe, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vision Drywall & Paint, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A&J Builders, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dairy Fountain 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS PRODUCERS COOP AMHERST 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAM-USA 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aadvantage Panels & Fence, Inc DBA MyTCoat 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR WBP 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowview Rehab and Nursing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 005 Viejo San Juan 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR M&M Service Company - Litchfield FS 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Moline 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Boston Woburn 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Metal Products, Inc 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE viastore Systems, Inc. 103 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.