Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums · Texas

West Texas Drum Company

Odessa, TX · ~98 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Texas Drum Company runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums workplace, earning a grade F.

West Texas Drum Company: 6.0 TCR = 286% of Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Texas Drum Company safety composite

West Texas Drum Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.4

2017→2024

West Texas Drum Company injury rate improved

West Texas Drum Company's TCR fell 8.4 from 12.1 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.1 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=8.8 · 2022=1.4 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Odessa, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 286% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #264/292
  • PHOTO Wiese Springfield
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wiese Springfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Texas Drum Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Texas Drum Company averages 6.0 TCR (286% of the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS benchmark).

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

West Texas Drum Company TCR series: 2017=12.1 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=8.8 · 2022=1.4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.1

Where West Texas Drum Company falls in its industry

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrel establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #264 safest of 292 Reconditioning shipping barrel employers in Texas.

West Texas Drum Company (98 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate West Texas Drum Company
West Texas Drum Company (98 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

West Texas Drum Company has more employees than the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 3.6 3.6 4 1 0
2022 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2020 8.8 5.5 8 0 0
2019 5.9 2.0 5 1 0
2018 4.2 1.1 3 1 0
2017 12.1 2.8 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · TX · Odessa

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 298 employers in Odessa, 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 Wiese Springfield 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder Savannah GA LOC0500 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Enterprises LLC- Latham 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reagent Chemical - Knox 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Fain/West Panhandle 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Service Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texarkana Operations 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL PASO TX INFO CEN 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR H&P U.S. Land - West 2,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saulsbury Industries Inc. 2,602 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Odessa, TX 2,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Odessa 8200 E IH-20, Odessa, TX 79706 858 FTE
NAT-TCR Toano 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6332 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Centric Waikiki Beach 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Titan Industries Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schenck Foods 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luvata Waterbury 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Telemedia Trainco Holdings LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 145 98 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.