Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Texas

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore

Kilgore, TX · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore: 7.7 TCR = 235% of Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore safety composite

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore: 5.2 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.2 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Kilgore, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 235% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Phoenix Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix Manufacturing LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore averages 7.7 TCR (235% of the Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore falls in its industry

175 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

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 10 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, employers in Texas.

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore (40 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore
Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore (40 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Kilgore has fewer employees than the Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2023 8.9 2.2 4 0 0
2022 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 14.1 7.0 6 0 0
2018 12.9 5.2 5 0 0
2017 7.8 2.6 2 1 0
2016 5.2 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · TX · Kilgore

175 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 51 employers in Kilgore, 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 Phoenix Manufacturing LLC 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Peotone 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Keg Company 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Packaging LLC 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Feedyard 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Kilgore 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orgill Kilgore Distribution Center 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 572 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR HTXKG01 328 FTE
NAT-TCR K Johnson Construction, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3020 Keystone 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Louis University Hospital 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - ABQ 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Buffalo 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantech Plastics 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Cincinnati 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.