Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), manufacturing · Texas

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc.

Athens, TX · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc.: 7.4 TCR = 225% of Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. safety composite

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc.: 3.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2018

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc.'s TCR rose 6.9 from 3.0 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Athens, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 225% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Krom International
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Krom International (0.0 TCR gap)

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The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. averages 7.4 TCR (225% of the Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. falls in its industry

266 Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e. establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e. employers in Texas.

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. (33 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc.
The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. (33 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

The D. S. Brown Company / SEP Inc. has fewer employees than the Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extrude median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 9.8 6.6 2 1 0
2017 9.5 9.5 3 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · TX · Athens

266 Rubber goods, mechanical (i.e., extruded, lathe-cut, molded), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Athens, 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 Krom International 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rol-Tec, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanseal 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corry Rubber Corporation 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Argon Medical Devices Inc. 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR UT Health Athens 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biomerics FMI 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Office 50 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Family Clinic - Regency 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Construction Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Mt. Pleasant 62- 25 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Lima 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pearl Valley Rehabilitation & Nursing at Sutherland 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aeron Advanced MFG 33 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, 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.