Hardware, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax

Name: Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Colfax, NC · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hardware, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax safety composite

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Colfax, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #25/132
PHOTO Manufacturing
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3
Manufacturing

1.3
Food Packaging

1.3
NMWI02-NMC-MPM

1.3
Oldcastle OPI

1.3

What this shows Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax falls in its industry

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 132 Hardware, plastics, manufactur employers in North Carolina.

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax (51 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tenn-Tex Plastics, Inc - Colfax has fewer employees than the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing 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
2018	2.5	2.5	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Colfax

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Colfax, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Manufacturing	GOODYEAR, AZ	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Food Packaging : GRANT PARK	GRANT PARK, IL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NMWI02-NMC-MPM - CUBA CITY	CUBA CITY, WI	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Oldcastle OPI - Tracy	TRACY, CA	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hawksridge Farms, Inc	HICKORY	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Burlington Operations Center	BURLINGTON	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DRB Group North Carolina LLC - Charlotte Division	CHARLOTTE	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	All other sites Gastonia	GASTONIA	51 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Riverlanding	Colfax	510 FTE
CITY-NEAR	River Landing at Sandy Ridge	Colfax	440 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Phillips Corporation - Commercial Division	Colfax	170 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foster-Caviness Company Inc	Colfax	161 FTE
NAT-TCR	HydroChem LLC-BOX	Borger, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buffalo Regional Office	Buffalo, NY	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant Eagle #3650	Pittsburgh, PA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	HCI02-HRO	Houston, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ft Bliss 171329 Sundt Construction	El Paso, TX	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Derrick - Houston	Houston, TX	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Milwaukee Brewing Company	Milwaukee, WI	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valeo North America Inc - Thermal Front End Module - Canton	Canton, MS	51 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, 2017. 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.