Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Texas

Solugen, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~117 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solugen, Inc. runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Solugen, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solugen, Inc. safety composite

Solugen, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Solugen, Inc.: 0.0 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.64× in 2023

Solugen, Inc.'s TCR rose 21.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 21.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 21.3 DART
  • RANK #99/103
  • PHOTO Polyventive LLC Dalt…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polyventive LLC Dalton South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Solugen, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solugen, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (139% 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

Solugen, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=21.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Solugen, Inc. falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #99 safest of 103 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Texas.

Solugen, Inc. (117 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Solugen, Inc.
Solugen, Inc. (117 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Solugen, Inc. has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a higher 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 21.3 21.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · TX · Houston

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Polyventive LLC Dalton South 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novozymes Franklinton 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peter Cremer North America - ST 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valtris Specialty Chemicals 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Genesis Energy Offshore Pipeline 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grayson-Collin Electric Cooper 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morrow Renewables 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE PICCo -06300241 Dow Gulfstream CRW 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Mechanicsburg 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Natural Resources (7) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesapeake Delivery Systems LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AJs 075 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Byron Station 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Natural Resources (20) 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independence Square 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashe Memorial Hospital 117 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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