Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Texas

Ameriforge-IR

Houston, TX · ~274 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ameriforge-IR runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade A.

Ameriforge-IR: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ameriforge-IR safety composite

Ameriforge-IR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ameriforge-IR: 0.2 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2023

Ameriforge-IR's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.2 in 2022 to 0.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/27
  • PHOTO Steel Industries - P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Industries - Plant 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ameriforge-IR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ameriforge-IR averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Ameriforge-IR TCR series: 2022=0.2 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ameriforge-IR falls in its industry

241 Hot forgings made from purchas establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 27 Hot forgings made from purchas employers in Texas.

Ameriforge-IR (274 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ameriforge-IR
Ameriforge-IR (274 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Ameriforge-IR has more employees than the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2023 0.9 0.9 4 0 0
2022 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · TX · Houston

241 Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Steel Industries - Plant 3 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuTec Tooling Systems, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asahi Blue Grass Forge 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Industry A Division of Columbus McKinnon 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 105186 - USGC ll Ethylene Plant 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 80645-MILK PLANT-SA 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE CF Dallas 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Vervent Inc SD 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NSVLTNHQ 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LRB Millwork & Casework Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Forum 55 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minn/St Paul MN FXFE-MSP 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Kauai Resort 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 1053 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suffolk Fire & Rescue 274 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: 2023, 2022. 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.