Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers · Texas

DFW Steel

Fort Worth, TX · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DFW Steel runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

DFW Steel: 6.9 TCR = 313% of Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DFW Steel safety composite

DFW Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2016→2017

DFW Steel injury rate improved

DFW Steel's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.6 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Fort Worth, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 313% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #104/119
  • PHOTO The Chapin & Bangs C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Chapin & Bangs Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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DFW Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DFW Steel averages 6.9 TCR (313% of the Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

DFW Steel TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where DFW Steel falls in its industry

1,299 Semi-finished metal products m establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 119 Semi-finished metal products m employers in Texas.

DFW Steel (30 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DFW Steel
DFW Steel (30 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

DFW Steel has fewer employees than the Semi-finished metal products merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2017 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2016 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Fort Worth

1,299 Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,346 employers in Fort Worth, 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 The Chapin & Bangs Co., Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feroleto Steel Company Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frederick Steel Co 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR vanex tube corporation 6.9 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 Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Fort Worth Campus (1093) 13,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Children's Medical Center 4,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX- Fort Worth 4,667 FTE
NAT-TCR 0101 - Fayetteville, NC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenoir (Nclen) 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Door West 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #16 (Escanaba, MI) 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Dca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0011 - Stockton, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0006 - Hesperia, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.