Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Texas

Work Area Protection - Garland

Name: Work Area Protection - Garland Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Garland, TX · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Work Area Protection - Garland runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Work Area Protection - Garland: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Work Area Protection - Garland safety composite

Work Area Protection - Garland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Work Area Protection - Garland: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Work Area Protection - Garland's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Garland, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/29
PHOTO Joliet Pattern Works…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joliet Pattern Works Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Accuform

1.4
This site

1.3
Joliet Pattern

1.3
Corporate Offi

1.3
INNERFACE ARCH

1.3

What this shows Work Area Protection - Garland averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Work Area Protection - Garland TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Work Area Protection - Garland falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 29 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Texas.

Work Area Protection - Garland (33 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Work Area Protection - Garland has fewer employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	2.6	0.0	1	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · TX · Garland

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 316 employers in Garland, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Joliet Pattern Works Inc.	CREST HILL, IL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Corporate Office	ROLLING MEADOWS, IL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	INNERFACE ARCHITECTURAL SIGNAGE, INC	ATLANTA, GA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Accuform	BROOKSVILLE, FL	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SW Seed Company New Deal	NEW DEAL	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Treesap Farms LLC - Houston	HOUSTON	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tejas Feeders LLC	PAMPA	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS	NACOGDOCHES	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DDA2	Garland	1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kraft Heinz Comany Garland	Garland	1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kraft Heinz	Garland	1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Osburn Contractors	Garland	933 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vanderveer's Gas Service - Biscoe - Robbins, NC	Biscoe, NC	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	CoorsTek - Worcester Ma.	Worcester, MA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Phoenix Mining	Tempe, AZ	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Union Grove	Calhoun, GA	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	HMA Contracting Corp.	Schaghticoke, NY	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GCT - Plainfield	Plainfield, IN	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GCT - Dayton	Dayton, OH	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Winston Weaver Fertilizer, Inc.	Winston Salem, NC	33 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: 2017, 2016. 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.