Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing · Texas

Zep Inc.

Desoto, TX · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zep Inc. runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Zep Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zep Inc. safety composite

Zep Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Zep Inc.: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2020

Zep Inc.'s TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Desoto, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #12/26
  • PHOTO Packers Chemical Hol…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Packers Chemical Holdings, LLC (doing buisiness as Packers Chemical) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zep Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zep Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Zep Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Zep Inc. falls in its industry

240 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #12 safest of 26 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, employers in Texas.

Zep Inc. (50 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zep Inc.
Zep Inc. (50 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Zep Inc. has fewer employees than the Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industria median and a lower 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 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · TX · Desoto

240 Detergents (e.g., dishwashing, industrial, laundry) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 67 employers in Desoto, 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 Packers Chemical Holdings, LLC (doing buisiness as Packers Chemical) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dober Chemical Corp 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diversey - Florence 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ecolab Garland, Tx 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1836 Farms LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwertner Farms, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Floydada Coop Gin #1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf Coast Area Office 6400 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR 826 - EFC4 DeSoto, TX 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6938 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6938 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeSoto Overhaul Center 416 FTE
NAT-TCR Morocco Electric, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brent Scarbrough & Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Napolese Fashion Mall 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TSME 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE B&B Beverage Company 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weinstein Electric Company 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luther St. Cloud Honda 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Live Turkey - Dayton VA Hatchery 50 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. 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.