Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · Texas

Refresco Waco Plant

Waco, TX · ~407 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refresco Waco Plant runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Refresco Waco Plant: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refresco Waco Plant safety composite

Refresco Waco Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Refresco Waco Plant: 0.2 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Refresco Waco Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.2 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Waco, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #4/32
  • PHOTO CCNA - Waco Thermal …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~407 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CCNA - Waco Thermal Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Refresco Waco Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refresco Waco Plant averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Refresco Waco Plant TCR series: 2023=0.2 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Refresco Waco Plant falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 32 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in Texas.

Refresco Waco Plant (407 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Refresco Waco Plant
Refresco Waco Plant (407 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Refresco Waco Plant has more employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 1.3 0.9 6 0 0
2023 0.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · TX · Waco

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, 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 CCNA - Waco Thermal Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wis-Pak Central, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6390 Eldridge 407 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Cabinets, Inc. 407 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2649 407 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1455 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilbar, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodridge IL 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Gift Corp 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Avoca LLC - WI 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greensboro 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastside Cannery Hotel and Casino 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Takeda: Bannockburn 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE APG 407 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.