Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing · Tennessee

Hydra Pools Sweetwater

Sweetwater, TN · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydra Pools Sweetwater runs at 429% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hydra Pools Sweetwater: 14.2 TCR = 429% of Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydra Pools Sweetwater safety composite

Hydra Pools Sweetwater scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−19.5

2019→2021

Hydra Pools Sweetwater injury rate improved

Hydra Pools Sweetwater's TCR fell 19.5 from 23.9 in 2019 to 4.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 23.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=23.9 · 2021=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Sweetwater, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 429% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Superior Putnam
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Putnam (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydra Pools Sweetwater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydra Pools Sweetwater averages 14.2 TCR (429% of the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hydra Pools Sweetwater TCR series: 2019=23.9 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydra Pools Sweetwater falls in its industry

396 Flexible packaging, plastics f establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Flexible packaging, plastics f employers in Tennessee.

Hydra Pools Sweetwater (33 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydra Pools Sweetwater
Hydra Pools Sweetwater (33 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Hydra Pools Sweetwater has fewer employees than the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2021 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2019 23.9 17.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · TN · Sweetwater

396 Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sweetwater, TN · 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 Superior Putnam 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Plastics, Inc. 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Webcut and Converting 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISOFlex Packaging of IN 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hamilton County WWTA (Water & Wastewater Treatment Authority) 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Curtis Construction Co., LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE TDH Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORION 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCHOTT Gemtron Corporation 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4166 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gemtron 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4166 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Oak Creek Ofc/Whse 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New York Aquarium 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 175 Industrial Loop South, Orange Park Florida 32073 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Loch Raven Center 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Service 5208 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Next Door Distribution LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - McAllen 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Atlanta Morrow 33 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, 2019. 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.