Starch glues manufacturing · Texas

IFS Industries - Garland

Garland, TX · ~51 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IFS Industries - Garland runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

IFS Industries - Garland: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IFS Industries - Garland safety composite

IFS Industries - Garland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

IFS Industries - Garland: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.29× in 2024

IFS Industries - Garland's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Garland, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Henkel US Operations…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkel US Operations Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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IFS Industries - Garland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IFS Industries - Garland averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

IFS Industries - Garland TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where IFS Industries - Garland falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Texas.

IFS Industries - Garland (51 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 IFS Industries - Garland
IFS Industries - Garland (51 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

IFS Industries - Garland has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 0 1 0
2019 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.8 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · TX · Garland

287 Starch glues 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 Henkel US Operations Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal - Michigan Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RectorSeal Houston 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunstar Engineering Americas (Springboro) 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore County Gin 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsmith 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Directional Drilling 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Liquid Measurement, Inc. 51 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 Canino Electric Co. Westmont 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive of York (Chambersburg) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Versant Power Hampden Operations Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Orlando 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Connecticut 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roanoke ROA 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Columbia CLM 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Landfill, Inc. 51 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.