Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Texas

Manufacturing & Office

Austin, TX · ~426 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing & Office runs at 326% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Manufacturing & Office: 10.8 TCR = 326% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing & Office safety composite

Manufacturing & Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−6.1

2016→2017

Manufacturing & Office injury rate improved

Manufacturing & Office's TCR fell 6.1 from 13.8 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.8 · 2017=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 326% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #28/29
  • PHOTO Archetype Signmakers…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~426 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Archetype Signmakers, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing & Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing & Office averages 10.8 TCR (326% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing & Office TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2017=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Manufacturing & Office falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #28 safest of 29 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Texas.

Manufacturing & Office (426 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Manufacturing & Office
Manufacturing & Office (426 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Manufacturing & Office has more employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher 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
2017 7.7 6.0 27 1 0
2016 13.8 5.6 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · TX · Austin

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 Archetype Signmakers, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Signs & Signals, Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mac Industries, Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Sports, Inc. 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4598-RUSH ADMINISTRATIVE SRVS 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6836-DAL 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Home Care 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Shepherd Hospital - Marshall 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Camden (Arcam) 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oklahoma City Hospice 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beth Sholom Village 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Street 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop Pdc Distribution Freetown 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derrick Corporation - Buffalo 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE JCH Medical Group - Pediatric Medicine 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agnes Scott College 426 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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