Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Texas

Southern Plastics

Kilgore, TX · ~238 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Plastics runs at 4% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Plastics: 0.1 TCR = 4% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Plastics safety composite

Southern Plastics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Southern Plastics held a steady TCR band

Southern Plastics's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kilgore, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 4% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/161
  • PHOTO Winchester-Global Pl…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winchester-Global Plastics- Injection Mo - F125 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Plastics averages 0.1 TCR (4% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Plastics TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 161 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Texas.

Southern Plastics (238 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Plastics
Southern Plastics (238 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern Plastics has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · TX · Kilgore

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 51 employers in Kilgore, 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 Winchester-Global Plastics- Injection Mo - F125 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Campus 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otter Products - Head Quarters 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otter Products - HQ 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Industrial Construction, LLC 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBI Electrical Systems (Fort Worth) 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Worth Plant 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Kilgore 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orgill Kilgore Distribution Center 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 572 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR HTXKG01 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Nutrition Formulators 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CASRNTCA 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxfield Education Center 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Central High School 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thoutt Bros Concrete Contractors Inc. 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10499 Columbia 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemay Avenue Health and Rehab 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6291 238 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.