Bar soaps manufacturing · Texas

Research Labs

Grand Prairie, TX · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Research Labs runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Research Labs: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Research Labs safety composite

Research Labs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Research Labs: 2.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2018

Research Labs's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.8 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Grand Prairie, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #20/26
  • PHOTO Bradford Soap - IN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bradford Soap - IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Research Labs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Research Labs averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Research Labs TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Research Labs falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 26 Bar soaps manufacturing employers in Texas.

Research Labs (160 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Research Labs
Research Labs (160 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Research Labs has more employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 5.3 4.6 8 0 0
2017 2.8 2.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · TX · Grand Prairie

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 405 employers in Grand Prairie, 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 Bradford Soap - IN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simoniz USA, Inc. - Bolton 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Church & Dwight Lakewood 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Chemical Laboratories, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LRM San Antonio 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Citgo Corpus Christi 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Grand Prairie Campus (1435) 3,544 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly-America, L.P. 2,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poly America 2,318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inmar - 4355 Grand Prairie, TX 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Peachtree Service Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3810 Wise Plastics Technologies 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 1 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leaf River Ag Service 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MacMulkin Chevrolet inc 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gbp Fcd 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chassix - Stevensville 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linc 0371 (Smyrna - F) 160 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. 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.