Employer · Texas

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum

Sweetwater, TX · ~95 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum: 2.3 TCR = 71% of industry BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum safety composite

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum: 1.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2020

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Sweetwater, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO US Gypsum Shoals
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Gypsum Shoals (0.0 TCR gap)

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TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum falls in its industry

123 industry establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #4 safest of 10 industry employers in Texas.

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum (95 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum
TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum (95 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum 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
2020 4.8 4.0 6 0 0
2019 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 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 US Gypsum Shoals 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX255 Sweetwater Gypsum West 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGC - Fort Dodge Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 106 - Lake Oconee 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - North District Houston 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacesetter Homes, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockin R Construction 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsboro Concrete Buildings 95 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 FHN 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Leawood Ks Store 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR VA - Relocation Drive 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : ELM - Elmira 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Victoria Manor 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bio Test Medical, Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Bear Lake Service Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.S. King Plant 95 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.