Bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing · Texas

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC

Waco, TX · ~166 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC: 6.9 TCR = 210% of Bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC safety composite

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC held a steady TCR band

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.1 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.1 · 2018=8.5 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 210% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Tufco LP
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tufco LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC averages 6.9 TCR (210% of the Bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=8.5 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC falls in its industry

191 Bonded-fiber fabrics manufactu establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #4 safest of 9 Bonded-fiber fabrics manufactu employers in Texas.

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC (166 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC
Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC (166 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hobbs Bonded Fibers NA LLC has more employees than the Bonded-fiber fabrics 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
2022 6.0 3.0 7 1 0
2021 7.1 5.1 10 1 0
2018 8.5 6.3 16 3 0
2017 6.1 4.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · TX · Waco

191 Bonded-fiber fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, 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 Tufco LP 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Nonwoven, INC. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foss Manufacturing Co. LLC Plant 3 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hobbs Bonded Fibers 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Homes Houston, LLC. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE INDUS ROAD & BRIDGE 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRAC-WORK, INC. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laney Directional Drilling Co. 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-04715 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4632 Coal Center PA 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanford Home Leechburg 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR M-5 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sanctuary at Holy Cross 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hackney 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greater Orange County 43110 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & S Food Services, Inc. 166 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. 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.