Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas

Houston, TX · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas: 4.8 TCR = 219% of Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas safety composite

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas: 1.1 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2019

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas's TCR rose 4.8 from 1.1 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 219% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #92/119
  • PHOTO Schupan Aluminum & P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schupan Aluminum & Plastic Sales Toledo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastern Metal Supply of Texas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastern Metal Supply of Texas averages 4.8 TCR (219% of the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=5.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Eastern Metal Supply of Texas falls in its industry

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, in establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #92 safest of 119 Metal products (e.g., bars, in employers in Texas.

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas (86 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Eastern Metal Supply of Texas
Eastern Metal Supply of Texas (86 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Eastern Metal Supply of Texas has more employees than the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plat 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
2019 5.9 5.9 6 0 0
2018 7.5 7.5 7 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Houston

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Schupan Aluminum & Plastic Sales Toledo 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Promet Processing Corporation 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allegheny Steel Distributors 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Metals - Cartersville, GA, loc'n #1098 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms, Permian Basin 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Food, Inc.- Klesel Complex 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sundown Tubing Testing 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Antonio Division 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Marion Industrial Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Museum of Fine Arts Boston 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LECO Corporation- Tem-Pres 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PTI:PT610 - PT610-Pleasantville, NJ Core 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bozeman Partners, LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nonwovens 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flambeau Phoenix 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.