Manufacturer of culvert products, irrigation products, and powder coating · Nebraska

Ace/Eaton Metals

Kearney, NE · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace/Eaton Metals runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Manufacturer of culvert products, irrigation products, and powder coating workplace, earning a grade F.

Ace/Eaton Metals: 7.2 TCR = 219% of Manufacturer of culvert products, irrigation products, and powder coating BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace/Eaton Metals safety composite

Ace/Eaton Metals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−309.9

2023→2024

Ace/Eaton Metals injury rate improved

Ace/Eaton Metals's TCR fell 309.9 from 317.1 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 317.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=317.1 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Kearney, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 219% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Welded Tube USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welded Tube USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace/Eaton Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace/Eaton Metals averages 7.2 TCR (219% of the Manufacturer of culvert products, irrigation products, and powder coating BLS benchmark).

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

Ace/Eaton Metals TCR series: 2023=317.1 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ace/Eaton Metals falls in its industry

329 Manufacturer of culvert produc establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ace/Eaton Metals (53 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ace/Eaton Metals
Ace/Eaton Metals (53 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Ace/Eaton Metals has fewer employees than the Manufacturer of culvert products, irriga median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 7.2 0.0 4 0 0
2023 317.1 317.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · NE · Kearney

329 Manufacturer of culvert products, irrigation products, and powder coating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 100 employers in Kearney, NE · 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 Welded Tube USA 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atchison Tubular Services, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballymore 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paragon Industries Inc. South 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hendrix ISA LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE IES Commercial, Inc. - Travel Group 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1518_3092 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE America's Fence Store Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Kearney 1,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney Facility 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-26100001-261001 791 FTE
NAT-TCR El Rio Grande Latin Market #3 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Harrisburg 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Careone at Teaneck 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marathon Construction Corporation 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auberge at North Ogden 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Econolite Group, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Young Industries Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth NJ TSDF 53 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. 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.