Employer · Texas

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST

Sweetwater, TX · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST: 6.3 TCR = 190% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST safety composite

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST: 4.6 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.6 in 2023 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Sweetwater, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO NJ022 Camden Gypsum
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NJ022 Camden Gypsum (0.1 TCR gap)

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TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST falls in its industry

123 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 industry employers in Texas.

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST (167 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST
TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST (167 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 8.0 5.7 14 0 0
2023 4.6 3.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · TX · Sweetwater

123 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Sweetwater, 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 NJ022 Camden Gypsum 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed Gypsum 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGC - Richmond Plant 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midland 2601 E Interstate 20, Midland, TX 79701 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.E. Rice Construciton Company Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGT-TX 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Services 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludlum Measurements, Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Gypsum Sweetwater 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3381 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3381 204 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterfront Services Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowbrook at Appleton 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohzan - Zanesville 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Watson Metal Masters 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capasso Enterprises Inc 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0017 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriNova Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decker Construction Company 167 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. 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.