Life preservers manufacturing · Texas

Kent Sporting Goods

Tyler, TX · ~139 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent Sporting Goods runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Life preservers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kent Sporting Goods: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Life preservers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent Sporting Goods safety composite

Kent Sporting Goods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−1.5

2016→2024

Kent Sporting Goods injury rate improved

Kent Sporting Goods's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.6 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Tyler, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO GCX Corporation
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GCX Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kent Sporting Goods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent Sporting Goods averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Life preservers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kent Sporting Goods TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kent Sporting Goods falls in its industry

555 Life preservers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Life preservers manufacturing employers in Texas.

Kent Sporting Goods (139 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kent Sporting Goods
Kent Sporting Goods (139 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Kent Sporting Goods has more employees than the Life preservers manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 3.1 3.1 4 0 0
2023 3.6 1.8 4 0 0
2022 5.7 2.1 8 0 0
2021 4.6 4.0 8 0 0
2020 4.1 2.4 5 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 4 0 0
2018 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2017 4.7 3.1 6 0 0
2016 4.6 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · TX · Tyler

555 Life preservers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 357 employers in Tyler, 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 GCX Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birchwood Laboratories LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medbio, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molnlycke Manufacturing US - AWC 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PAB 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland 6913 N FM 1788, Midland, TX 79707 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOSF-Lancaster 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE BENBROOK SV CTR 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler - CTMF 380 3,897 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler Main Hospital 2,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Residential HVAC and Supply : MFG-Tyler,TX-USA 2,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Clinic - CTMF 381 1,705 FTE
NAT-TCR PFC-CT 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Auto Crane Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ChoreTime Decatur 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #27 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE NH Road Crews and Installation 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Truck Sales 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDowell Appalachian Regional Healthcare 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Suddath Companies 139 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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