Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Norkol Mesquite

Name: Norkol Mesquite Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Mesquite, TX · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Norkol Mesquite runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Norkol Mesquite: 6.7 TCR = 305% of Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norkol Mesquite safety composite

Norkol Mesquite scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−7.2

2023→2024

Norkol Mesquite injury rate improved

Norkol Mesquite's TCR fell 7.2 from 10.3 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.3 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Mesquite, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 305% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #21/24
PHOTO Victory Packaging Ho…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Victory Packaging Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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

This site

6.7
Victory Packag

6.7
APT-Little Roc

6.7
I Halper

6.7
Victory Packag

6.6

What this shows Norkol Mesquite averages 6.7 TCR (305% of the Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Norkol Mesquite TCR series: 2023=10.3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Norkol Mesquite falls in its industry

290 Converted paper (except statio establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Converted paper (except statio employers in Texas.

Norkol Mesquite (42 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Norkol Mesquite has fewer employees than the Converted paper (except stationery and o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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	3.1	3.1	1	0	0
2023	10.3	7.7	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · TX · Mesquite

290 Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 166 employers in Mesquite, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Victory Packaging Houston	HOUSTON, TX	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	APT-Little Rock	LITTLE ROCK, AR	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	I Halper	BAYONNE, NJ	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Victory Packaging Dallas	FORT WORTH, TX	6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Headquarters Southeast	HOUSTON	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Littlefield Feedyard	AMHERST	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS	SUNRAY	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3-H Dairy LLC	MULESHOE	42 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MESQUITE (TXMES)	Mesquite	2,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TXMES - MESQUITE	Mesquite	2,481 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Canadian Solar US Module Manufacturing	Mesquite	883 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6458-ZMES	Mesquite	874 FTE
NAT-TCR	Agri Supply of Greenville	Greenville, NC	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main Office	Sacramento, CA	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Human Resources Center	Honesdale, PA	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Weller Brothers, LLC	Sioux Falls, SD	6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ingram Barge Company Columbus	Paducah, KY	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bauer Design Build, LLC	Plymouth, MN	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mnrew - Red Wing	Red Wing, MN	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Triangle Roofing, Inc.	Pittsburgh, PA	42 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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