Inks, printing, manufacturing · Texas

SunChemical Grand Prairie

Grand Prairie, TX · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunChemical Grand Prairie runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Inks, printing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

SunChemical Grand Prairie: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunChemical Grand Prairie safety composite

SunChemical Grand Prairie scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2018

SunChemical Grand Prairie injury rate improved

SunChemical Grand Prairie's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2018=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Grand Prairie, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Hutchinson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hutchinson (0.1 TCR gap)

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SunChemical Grand Prairie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunChemical Grand Prairie averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SunChemical Grand Prairie TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where SunChemical Grand Prairie falls in its industry

111 Inks, printing, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Inks, printing, manufacturing employers in Texas.

SunChemical Grand Prairie (31 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate SunChemical Grand Prairie
SunChemical Grand Prairie (31 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

SunChemical Grand Prairie has fewer employees than the Inks, printing, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · TX · Grand Prairie

111 Inks, printing, 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 Hutchinson 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Colors Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1PHL Sun Chemical 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE TREES USA 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treeland Nursery Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 145 Ranch LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Tulia 31 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 Shopko Hometown #608 (Brillion, WI) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulane University-Health Sciences Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadow Brook - Erie 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otter Products Salazar 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nj610-Lpz-Nj610 New Jersey Wh 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCY - Youth 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Wales Clinic Corporation 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #768 (Glasgow, MT) 31 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, 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.