Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants · Texas

API Spring

Spring, TX · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

API Spring runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade D.

API Spring: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

API Spring safety composite

API Spring scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

API Spring: 2.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

API Spring's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.6 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Spring, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Avionics
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avionics (0.0 TCR gap)

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API Spring in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows API Spring averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

API Spring TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where API Spring falls in its industry

163 Barbed and twisted wire made i establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Barbed and twisted wire made i employers in Texas.

API Spring (26 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate API Spring
API Spring (26 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

API Spring has fewer employees than the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire dra median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · TX · Spring

163 Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 212 employers in Spring, 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 Avionics 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri Star Metals 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products TNS 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tree Island Wire USA, Inc. San Bernardino 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeling Cattle Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exxon Mobil Corporation Houston Campus 5,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP Inc. Houston 2,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Global Services Company Houston Campus 2,050 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Bureau of Shipping 1,159 FTE
NAT-TCR Lenox Square 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Builders Systems Incorporated 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elderwood Village at Vestal 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington NM FXFE-FMT 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deseret Land and Livestock 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scholet Furniture 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton by Hilton 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lendlease - Boston Office 26 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. 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.