Bronze foundries (except die-casting) · Texas

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St.

Bastrop, TX · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bronze foundries (except die-casting) workplace, earning a grade D.

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St.: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Bronze foundries (except die-casting) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. safety composite

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St.: 3.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St.'s TCR rose 1.2 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331529 · Bastrop, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Midland Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midland Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Bronze foundries (except die-casting) BLS benchmark).

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

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=13 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=0 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. falls in its industry

124 Bronze foundries (except die-c establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Bronze foundries (except die-c employers in Texas.

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St.
Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Deep in the Heart Art Foundry-405 South Jackson St. has fewer employees than the Bronze foundries (except die-casting) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2022 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.9 6.0 2 1 0
2018 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2017 13.0 13.0 4 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331529 · TX · Bastrop

124 Bronze foundries (except die-casting) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Bastrop, 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 Midland Manufacturing Company 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryder Heil Bronze, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Wheel Operations LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Machine Shop 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAZOS RIVER SOD FARM 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coyote Lake Feeders LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimmitt Feedyard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXAUS41 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bastrop, TX 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1042 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1042 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Tradewinds Building and Development 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Darling Ingredients 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 048 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Albertsons Sundries Distribution Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fern Terrace of Bowling Green 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millennium Paint 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Building & Supply Co. Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oshkosh WI FXFE-OSK 30 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: 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.