Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) secondary smelting and refining · Texas

Dillon Gage Refinery

Dallas, TX · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dillon Gage Refinery runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) secondary smelting and refining workplace, earning a grade A.

Dillon Gage Refinery: 1.6 TCR = 47% of Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) secondary smelting and refining BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dillon Gage Refinery safety composite

Dillon Gage Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Dillon Gage Refinery: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Dillon Gage Refinery's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331492 · Dallas, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO Jostens - Owatonna STN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jostens - Owatonna STN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dillon Gage Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dillon Gage Refinery averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) secondary smelting and refining BLS benchmark).

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

Dillon Gage Refinery TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dillon Gage Refinery falls in its industry

132 Nonferrous metals (except alum establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #4 safest of 13 Nonferrous metals (except alum employers in Texas.

Dillon Gage Refinery (29 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dillon Gage Refinery
Dillon Gage Refinery (29 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Dillon Gage Refinery has fewer employees than the Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copp median and a lower 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
2024 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331492 · TX · Dallas

132 Nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper) secondary smelting and refining employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Jostens - Owatonna STN 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Zinc - Houston Metal 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Management Midwest, Inc (dba Sims Precious Metals) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmerton 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pepper Dairy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE SROOC Holding LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Logging, LLC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Arcade Beauty - Dayton 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR L Pugh & Associates 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PIC Wire & Cable 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CES Electric, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groot Southwest 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Builders Insulation- Corona 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allen Park 29 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. 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.