Employer · Texas

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville

Brownsville, TX · ~149 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville: 7.5 TCR = 227% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville safety composite

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville: 1.3 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2023

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville's TCR rose 12.3 from 1.3 in 2020 to 13.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Brownsville, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO CELLUSUEDE PRODUCTS,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CELLUSUEDE PRODUCTS, INC. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville TCR series: 2020=1.3 · 2023=13.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville falls in its industry

89 industry establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 industry employers in Texas.

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville (149 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville
Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville (149 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Martex Fiber Southern Corporation - Brownsville has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 13.7 13.7 6 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · TX · Brownsville

89 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 155 employers in Brownsville, 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 CELLUSUEDE PRODUCTS, INC. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regalia 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Outdoor Custom Sportswear LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exxel Outdoors, LLC Reno Facility 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Texas 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kenedy 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE HCI01-Baytown 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trendmaker Homes 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brownsville, TX 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-769 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Valley Regional Medical Center 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Regional Medical Center 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4631 Henderson, NV 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lupient Chevrolet 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alhambra Healthcare & Wellness Centre LP 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Achilles USA, Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reading Plant 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE IFF Gibson City 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE ccof Inc 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (UCG-6458) 149 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: 2023, 2020. 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.