Mineral wool insulation materials manufacturing · Texas

Waxahachie Plant

Waxahachie, TX · ~323 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waxahachie Plant runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Mineral wool insulation materials manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Waxahachie Plant: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Mineral wool insulation materials manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waxahachie Plant safety composite

Waxahachie Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2020→2021

Waxahachie Plant injury rate improved

Waxahachie Plant's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.9 in 2020 to 0.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.9 · 2021=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327993 · Waxahachie, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Frasch
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~323 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frasch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waxahachie Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waxahachie Plant averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Mineral wool insulation materials manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waxahachie Plant TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Waxahachie Plant falls in its industry

101 Mineral wool insulation materi establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Mineral wool insulation materi employers in Texas.

Waxahachie Plant (323 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Waxahachie Plant
Waxahachie Plant (323 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Waxahachie Plant has more employees than the Mineral wool insulation materials manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2021 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2020 2.9 2.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327993 · TX · Waxahachie

101 Mineral wool insulation materials manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 108 employers in Waxahachie, 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 Frasch 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong World Industries - Millwood 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR USG Interiors Greenville 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong World Industries 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tyler Jobsites 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTSI Inc 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Black & Decker - Dallas 323 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lasko Products LLC TX 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Waxahachie 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2045-00010W 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Waxahachie 862 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00010W WAXAHACHIE 792 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Manorcare Chevy Chase 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR World Tableware Inc. West Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 43381r - Lowell Ar Ges Pec 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridout - Wholesale 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mission-Critical Technologies 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presrite Corporation 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE DG Foods, LLC Hazlehurst 323 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acuity Brands Lighting Decatur 323 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.