Foam polystyrene products manufacturing · Texas

Houston Foam Plastics 4

Houston, TX · ~43 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Foam Plastics 4 runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Foam polystyrene products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Houston Foam Plastics 4: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Foam Plastics 4 safety composite

Houston Foam Plastics 4 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Houston Foam Plastics 4 held a steady TCR band

Houston Foam Plastics 4's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/23
  • PHOTO Huntington Solutions
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntington Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Foam Plastics 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Foam Plastics 4 averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Foam Plastics 4 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston Foam Plastics 4 falls in its industry

260 Foam polystyrene products manu establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 23 Foam polystyrene products manu employers in Texas.

Houston Foam Plastics 4 (43 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Foam Plastics 4
Houston Foam Plastics 4 (43 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Houston Foam Plastics 4 has fewer employees than the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · TX · Houston

260 Foam polystyrene products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Huntington Solutions 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container Mason Cup Mfg. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alleguard - Lancaster 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Albany Foam Fabricators, Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timpson Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midkiff Farmers Coop 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seagraves GP Shelling Plant 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Paso Golden Peanut Treenut Pecan Shelling 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Thomas Industries, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR John Schuring, Jr. Company 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam C Franklin & Son, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valmet Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oregon Swiss Precision Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 065/Buckhead Triangle 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bismark Construction Company, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Copiah Lumber Company Inc. 43 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.