Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing · Texas

SW Foam LLC

El Paso, TX · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

SW Foam LLC runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

SW Foam LLC: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SW Foam LLC safety composite

SW Foam LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

SW Foam LLC: 1.3 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

SW Foam LLC's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.3 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · El Paso, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO Republic Plastics, L…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Republic Plastics, Ltd. (TX) (0.0 TCR gap)

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SW Foam LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SW Foam LLC averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SW Foam LLC TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.4 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=7 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where SW Foam LLC falls in its industry

260 Polystyrene foam packaging man establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 Polystyrene foam packaging man employers in Texas.

SW Foam LLC (74 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate SW Foam LLC
SW Foam LLC (74 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

SW Foam LLC has more employees than the Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2022 7.0 7.0 7 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2017 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · TX · El Paso

260 Polystyrene foam packaging manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 Republic Plastics, Ltd. (TX) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Plastics, Ltd. TN-K1 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones Holt Enterprises, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hope Hull 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acrosa Crushed Concrete 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolk Station-124 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft. Bend Service Center CP18 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Headquarters and Corporate Services 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Rizzo Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 0790 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AP Emissions 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADEP Group 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barrow Utilities & Electric Cooperative, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automated Logic Controls (Pennsylvania) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 02239 - Store 02239 Surfside Beach 74 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, 2017, 2016. 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.