Photonics research and development services · Texas

ML Austin

Austin, TX · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

ML Austin runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Photonics research and development services workplace, earning a grade B.

ML Austin: 0.4 TCR = 74% of Photonics research and development services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ML Austin safety composite

ML Austin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

ML Austin held a steady TCR band

ML Austin's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Austin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 0.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO The Scotts Company -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Scotts Company - Marysville R D (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

ML Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ML Austin averages 0.4 TCR (74% of the Photonics research and development services BLS benchmark).

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

ML Austin TCR series: 2016=0 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 0.5

Where ML Austin falls in its industry

319 Photonics research and develop establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Photonics research and develop employers in Texas.

ML Austin (93 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate ML Austin
ML Austin (93 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

ML Austin has fewer employees than the Photonics research and development servi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.1 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · TX · Austin

319 Photonics research and development services 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 The Scotts Company - Marysville R D 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutics Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC - Femrite 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middleton Office 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Apache Corporation - Houston Region 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strata Material, LLC. Dba Acrosa Crushed Concrete 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Branch Service Center CPC4 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARLINGEN TX OF 93 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 Dept. of Law (1) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarkfield/Boyd Grain Elevator 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Altra Industrial Motion Corp 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Elevator Company Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE AJs 064 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City 103 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evansville Goodwill Industries Main Office Plant and Store 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northgate Care Center 93 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, 2022, 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.