Erecting structural steel · Texas

Empire Acero

Humble, TX · ~242 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Acero runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade A.

Empire Acero: 0.9 TCR = 31% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Acero safety composite

Empire Acero scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Empire Acero: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2021

Empire Acero's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Humble, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #10/66
  • PHOTO Federal Steel & Erec…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Federal Steel & Erection Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Acero in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Acero averages 0.9 TCR (31% 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 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Empire Acero falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #10 safest of 66 Erecting structural steel employers in Texas.

Empire Acero (242 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 050100150200250300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Acero
Empire Acero (242 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Empire Acero 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
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 0.7 0.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · TX · Humble

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 174 employers in Humble, 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 Federal Steel & Erection Co. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Field 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guaranteed Waterproofing 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tippen 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Melton Electric Inc. 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vaden's Acoustics and Drywall 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE 997 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Homes 952 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAHCC0170 IAH - CARGO 2,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAHCX9575 IAH - UPS B19575 1,699 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital 958 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU1 894 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Martin Companies, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Flooring Sales 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UMA, Geotechnical Construction, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lumentum 80 Rose Orchard 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unigen Corporation 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE GF Linamar, LLC 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0358 - Brandon Fl Whse 242 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.