Architectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing · Texas

Lowe Precast - Waco

Waco, TX · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowe Precast - Waco runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Architectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowe Precast - Waco: 7.2 TCR = 219% of Architectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowe Precast - Waco safety composite

Lowe Precast - Waco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Lowe Precast - Waco: 7.7 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

Lowe Precast - Waco's TCR rose 1.9 from 7.7 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327390 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 219% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #65/79
  • PHOTO Coreslab Structures
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coreslab Structures (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowe Precast - Waco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowe Precast - Waco averages 7.2 TCR (219% of the Architectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lowe Precast - Waco TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lowe Precast - Waco falls in its industry

790 Architectural wall panels, pre establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 79 Architectural wall panels, pre employers in Texas.

Lowe Precast - Waco (25 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 Lowe Precast - Waco
Lowe Precast - Waco (25 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Lowe Precast - Waco has fewer employees than the Architectural wall panels, precast concr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2023 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.3 3.7 2 0 0
2017 7.7 7.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327390 · TX · Waco

790 Architectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, 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 Coreslab Structures 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilbert Funeral Services Springfield 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durlach Industries, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Avon Mfg 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelson County Fiscal Court 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR POET Research Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Management The Glenn Hopkins Towers 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Agrima Farms INC 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suncast Corporation Plant 3 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Collins-Loveland jetCenter, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westview Services Blue House - Supported Employment 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Office 25 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.