Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Texas

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City

Karnes City, TX · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City safety composite

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−6.5

2016→2019

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City injury rate improved

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City's TCR fell 6.5 from 6.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Karnes City, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #66/161
  • PHOTO Ironwood Plastics
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ironwood Plastics (0.0 TCR gap)

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L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 161 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Texas.

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City (24 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City
L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City (24 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Riddleville Plant -Karnes City has fewer employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · TX · Karnes City

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Karnes City, 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 Ironwood Plastics 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matrix Plastic Products, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur Plastic Products Inc - Indiana Flocking Division 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DWFP EGV 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Sales 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springlake Dairy LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darty Gin Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4238-200 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR 200 950 - GEO CENTRAL REGIONAL OFFICE-KARNES CIVIL DETENTION CENTER 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR CK Newberry Highway and Heavy Construction LLC 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ovintiv USA Inc. - Eagle Ford Office 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Sansum Clinic 470 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Brands : 0Y31 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6836-KAN 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-KSWIC058 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta DCH 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masters Company, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forsyth House 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilmington DE 24 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.