Polyethylene resins manufacturing · Texas

Matagorda LDPE

Bay City, TX · ~156 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matagorda LDPE runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polyethylene resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Matagorda LDPE: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Polyethylene resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matagorda LDPE safety composite

Matagorda LDPE scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Matagorda LDPE held a steady TCR band

Matagorda LDPE's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Bay City, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/76
  • PHOTO Equistar Chemicals, LP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Equistar Chemicals, LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Matagorda LDPE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matagorda LDPE averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Polyethylene resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Matagorda LDPE TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Matagorda LDPE falls in its industry

644 Polyethylene resins manufactur establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 76 Polyethylene resins manufactur employers in Texas.

Matagorda LDPE (156 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Matagorda LDPE
Matagorda LDPE (156 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Matagorda LDPE has more employees than the Polyethylene resins manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.1 0.5 1 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · TX · Bay City

644 Polyethylene resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 34 employers in Bay 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 Equistar Chemicals, LP 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BVPV Styrenics LLC - Beaver Valley Site 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dow Corning Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmSty Allyn's Point 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scout Downhole 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Larrett Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belt Construction of Texas, LLC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graco Mechanical 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenaris Bay City 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Roehm-Bay City 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1405 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1405 271 FTE
NAT-TCR LECESSE Construction Services LLC. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Station 5 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR L3 Technologies, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Freeport-McMoRan Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Carolina Electric Cooperatives 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Conec Ltd-830 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intech 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connector Manufacturing - Hamilton 156 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: 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.