Potting soil manufacturing · Texas

Vital Earth Resources, Inc.

Gladewater, TX · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potting soil manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vital Earth Resources, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Potting soil manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. safety composite

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Vital Earth Resources, Inc.: 1.6 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Vital Earth Resources, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 1.6 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Gladewater, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO Southern States Stat…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vital Earth Resources, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Earth Resources, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (98% of the Potting soil manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Vital Earth Resources, Inc. falls in its industry

163 Potting soil manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 18 Potting soil manufacturing employers in Texas.

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vital Earth Resources, Inc.
Vital Earth Resources, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vital Earth Resources, Inc. has more employees than the Potting soil manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · TX · Gladewater

163 Potting soil manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 16 employers in Gladewater, 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 Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWR South Yard 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Groveland 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panamerican Fertilizer, Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Feedyard 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flatonia Farm Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waelder 2 Complex 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complex 1 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trendsetter Construction Inc. 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truman Smith 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vickie Berry 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Transport LLC 129 FTE
NAT-TCR DFA of California 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lien Transportation Company 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CBJ Aquatics 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Flight Network 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of White Plains-DPW Bureau of Sanitation 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norkote, Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5 Star Building Products 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE COLITA 58 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.