Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Texas

Tekni-Plex, Inc.

Dallas, TX · ~144 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tekni-Plex, Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Tekni-Plex, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tekni-Plex, Inc. safety composite

Tekni-Plex, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Tekni-Plex, Inc.: 1.8 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2022

Tekni-Plex, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Dallas, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO Atlas Molded Product…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Molded Products - Denver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tekni-Plex, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tekni-Plex, Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tekni-Plex, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Tekni-Plex, Inc. falls in its industry

260 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufa establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #10 safest of 23 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufa employers in Texas.

Tekni-Plex, Inc. (144 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Tekni-Plex, Inc.
Tekni-Plex, Inc. (144 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Tekni-Plex, Inc. has more employees than the Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2022 2.5 1.3 4 0 0
2021 1.6 0.5 3 0 0
2016 1.8 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · TX · Dallas

260 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Atlas Molded Products - Denver 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tekni-Plex Wenatchee, WA 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container North Aurora 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container Waxahachie 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHRG AUS 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE LWL, Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE S'n'S Erectors 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eilers Steel Erection, Inc. 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR ABC INOAC Exterior Systems, LLC. Fremont 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 30 Phoenix Metals Norcross 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fridley Oat Mill 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TAC Air - SHV 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canterbury Healthcare 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granges, Salisbury 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Rim Constructors Inc. 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 396 - Wappingers Falls 144 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: 2022, 2021, 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.