Erecting structural steel · Texas

Empire Acero, LLC.

Boerne, TX · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Acero, LLC. runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade B.

Empire Acero, LLC.: 2.2 TCR = 79% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Acero, LLC. safety composite

Empire Acero, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Empire Acero, LLC. held a steady TCR band

Empire Acero, LLC.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 2.6 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Boerne, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #27/66
  • PHOTO Harris Rebar Placing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harris Rebar Placing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Acero, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Acero, LLC. averages 2.2 TCR (79% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Acero, LLC. TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Empire Acero, LLC. falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 66 Erecting structural steel employers in Texas.

Empire Acero, LLC. (98 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Acero, LLC.
Empire Acero, LLC. (98 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Empire Acero, LLC. has more employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · TX · Boerne

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 61 employers in Boerne, 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 Harris Rebar Placing LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRIME STEEL ERECTING, INC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Steel Group 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Google 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Fain/West Panhandle 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Service Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texarkana Operations 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL PASO TX INFO CEN 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1126 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1126 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boerne Facility 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR AEC BOE OPS 223 FTE
NAT-TCR A&M Pallet Pll 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FLO011 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyocera International San Diego 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cutting Edge Curbing #438 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deacon Construction, LLC - OR 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three Notch'd Brewing Company Charlottesville Craft Kitchen and Brewery 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crest Pointe Operator, LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gordini USA Inc. 98 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. 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.