Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing · Texas

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous

Brownwood, TX · ~650 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous safety composite

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous: 0.9 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.15× in 2024

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.9 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327110 · Brownwood, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Toto USA Fairburn
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~650 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Toto USA Fairburn (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous falls in its industry

109 Plumbing fixtures, vitreous ch establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #2 safest of 5 Plumbing fixtures, vitreous ch employers in Texas.

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous (650 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous
Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous (650 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous has more employees than the Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manuf 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 4.6 4.1 11 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 4 0 0
2019 2.4 2.1 15 0 0
2018 1.1 0.9 11 0 0
2017 1.4 1.2 17 0 0
2016 0.9 0.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327110 · TX · Brownwood

109 Plumbing fixtures, vitreous china, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 59 employers in Brownwood, 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 Toto USA Fairburn 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalan LP 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mackenzie-Childs - Aurora 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerber Plumbing Fixtures, LLC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE JSW Steel (USA) Inc. 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irving TX 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE DALLAS_1441184 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forcepoint LLC (Austin) 650 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6394-B2300 2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Girling Community Care - Brownwood 1,410 FTE
CITY-NEAR BROWNWOOD 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center Brownwood 552 FTE
NAT-TCR FSG-Arizona 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nations Roof of New England 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR D&H Excavating Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant WD 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE FPL Food Main Plant 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE WHQ 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flex-N-Gate Ok LLC 650 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, 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.