Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · Texas

Ascend

Wylie, TX · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade B.

Ascend: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend safety composite

Ascend scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Ascend held a steady TCR band

Ascend's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Wylie, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Tower Extrusions, LLC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tower Extrusions, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Ascend TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ascend falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in Texas.

Ascend (186 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Ascend
Ascend (186 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ascend has more employees than the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 2.4 1.4 4 1 0
2016 2.4 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · TX · Wylie

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 45 employers in Wylie, 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 Tower Extrusions, LLC. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pimalco 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Burlington 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Extrusions Corp 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PEC-Headquarters 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHTEX of Texas, Inc. - Austin 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanchette Field Services 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Large Projects-Central Region 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanden International (U.S.A.) Inc 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5210 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5210 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanden International (USA) Inc. 287 FTE
NAT-TCR CCNA - Dunedin Juice Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Line Affiliates 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Towing 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwell Automation- Memphis TN (MTN) 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MS - Hill AFB, UT - 1HAUT 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston Center (Sccha) 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alton (Ilalt) 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traemand Installation Services 186 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: 2017, 2016. 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.