Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Texas

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America

Freeport, TX · ~38 workers · 3 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

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America safety composite

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America held a steady TCR band

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Freeport, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #59/103
  • PHOTO Chemicals Incorporat…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemicals Incorporated Bay City Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shin-Etsu Silicones of America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shin-Etsu Silicones of America averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Shin-Etsu Silicones of America falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 103 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Texas.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (38 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Shin-Etsu Silicones of America
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America (38 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America has fewer employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TX · Freeport

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 103 employers in Freeport, 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 Chemicals Incorporated Bay City Site 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KINGCHEM LABORATORIES INC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aldrich Chemical Co., LLC - Emmber 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastman Specialties Corporation 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bovina Cattle Company 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT BREEDER AND BROILER 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Agricultural- Danevang 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2362/3714-Lubbock, TX-R&D (Monsanto Co.) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeport, Texas 4,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dow Texas Operations 3,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Cube Freeport Operations 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemical Manufacturing 933 FTE
NAT-TCR East Coast Metal Decks, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Pressed Metals LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Towson Town Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ghent 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 29 Precast 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Professional Construction Services, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Division 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbine Assembly Test 38 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, 2021. 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.