Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing · Alabama

Matex Hose

Dothan, AL · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matex Hose runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Matex Hose: 4.4 TCR = 135% of Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matex Hose safety composite

Matex Hose scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−86.5

2023→2024

Matex Hose injury rate improved

Matex Hose's TCR fell 86.5 from 91.0 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 91.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=91.0 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326220 · Dothan, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Gates Galesburg
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gates Galesburg (0.1 TCR gap)

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Matex Hose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matex Hose averages 4.4 TCR (135% of the Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Matex Hose TCR series: 2023=91 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Matex Hose falls in its industry

160 Plastics and rubber belts and establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Plastics and rubber belts and employers in Alabama.

Matex Hose (62 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Matex Hose
Matex Hose (62 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Matex Hose has fewer employees than the Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (wit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2023 91.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326220 · AL · Dothan

160 Plastics and rubber belts and hoses (without fittings) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 183 employers in Dothan, AL · 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 Gates Galesburg 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NewAge Industries Inc - Valley Road 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kuri Tec Manufacturing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Habasit America Middletown 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Talladega) 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Dekalb Electric Copperative 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dixie Electric Cooperative 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alabama Painting Inc 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR DSI SECURITY SERVICES CORPORATE 2,918 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dothan Plant 1,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dothan processing plant 1,140 FTE
CITY-NEAR 604 362 FTE
NAT-TCR HCA Florida Trinity Hospital 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR K.W. Crosby, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Richfield 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keyano 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Competition INFINITI 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Earl Smith Distributing Company 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bakers' Signs and Manufacturing, Inc 62 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. 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.