Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Kentucky

Zotefoams Inc

Walton, KY · ~74 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zotefoams Inc runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Zotefoams Inc: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zotefoams Inc safety composite

Zotefoams Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Zotefoams Inc held a steady TCR band

Zotefoams Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.2 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Walton, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Creative Foam - Dayton
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creative Foam - Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zotefoams Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zotefoams Inc averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Zotefoams Inc TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Zotefoams Inc falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Foam plastics products (except employers in Kentucky.

Zotefoams Inc (74 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zotefoams Inc
Zotefoams Inc (74 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Zotefoams Inc has fewer employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2021 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · KY · Walton

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 50 employers in Walton, KY · 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 Creative Foam - Dayton 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Salisbury 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Panels - Terrell 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adient, Pulaski Plant 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Lexington Region 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Accurity Industrial Contractors, llc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lagco Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Estron Chemical 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYWON - RICHWOOD 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richwood #2 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Radial Richwood #1 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safran Landing Systems Kentucky LLC 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Gator Tampa 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MAZ 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR J&L Manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR York PA 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Window of Atlanta 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadowbrook at Appleton 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Colt's Plastics Company, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Boston Solar Company LLC 74 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, 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.