Highway construction · Texas

IH 35E, Ellis County

Waxahachie, TX · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IH 35E, Ellis County runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade A.

IH 35E, Ellis County: 0.9 TCR = 31% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IH 35E, Ellis County safety composite

IH 35E, Ellis County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

IH 35E, Ellis County held a steady TCR band

IH 35E, Ellis County's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Waxahachie, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/286
  • PHOTO Prairie Contractors,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prairie Contractors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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IH 35E, Ellis County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IH 35E, Ellis County averages 0.9 TCR (31% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

IH 35E, Ellis County TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where IH 35E, Ellis County falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 286 Highway construction employers in Texas.

IH 35E, Ellis County (35 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate IH 35E, Ellis County
IH 35E, Ellis County (35 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

IH 35E, Ellis County has fewer employees than the Highway construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · Waxahachie

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 108 employers in Waxahachie, 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 Prairie Contractors, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rieth-Riley - LaPorte 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bettendorf 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company - 2730 Brightline Zone 4 Phase II 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southwest Feedyard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDF Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. - Marion, TX 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Select Produce, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Waxahachie 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2045-00010W 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie 862 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00010W WAXAHACHIE 792 FTE
NAT-TCR Veeco Process Equipoment Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kurita America - Brooklyn Park 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossville Studios Salt Lake City 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EnvirOx, LLC 1938 E. Fairchild 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Attorney's Office 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Co-Op Gas & Supply Co Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCI Management Services Company 7 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olive Road 35 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.