Container trucking services, local · Texas

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc.

Baytown, TX · ~57 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Container trucking services, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Container trucking services, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. safety composite

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc.: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.47× in 2023

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Baytown, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #40/175
  • PHOTO Ripato Trucking, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ripato Trucking, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Container trucking services, local BLS benchmark).

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

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 Container trucking services, l establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 175 Container trucking services, l employers in Texas.

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. (57 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kay Polymer Trucking Inc.
Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. (57 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. has more employees than the Container trucking services, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · TX · Baytown

2,784 Container trucking services, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 247 employers in Baytown, 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 Ripato Trucking, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jimmy T. Woods 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SNL Distribution Services Corp-New Orleans 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Junction Trucking 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Tyler Hatchery 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Waco Hatchery 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Natural Resources Cedar Lake location 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKJ Transport - Energy Services 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Growth Olefins Recovery Project 2,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital 1,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery 1,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7042 1,288 FTE
NAT-TCR Rocky Coast Builders 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NuWeld, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaplan Construction 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR United Initiators, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LCS Florence LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Electrical Contracting, Inc 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEP - Wire 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Based Operations 57 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.