Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants · Texas

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill

El Paso, TX · ~148 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill safety composite

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill: 1.8 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2018

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · El Paso, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO International Wire -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Wire - Camden Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS benchmark).

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

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill falls in its industry

198 Bar, copper and copper alloy, establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #13 safest of 19 Bar, copper and copper alloy, employers in Texas.

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill (148 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill
Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill (148 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Freeport McMoRan Rod Mill has more employees than the Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from 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
2018 2.6 2.6 3 1 0
2017 2.8 2.1 4 0 0
2016 1.8 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · TX · El Paso

198 Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 International Wire - Camden Plant 1 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bremen Electronic Extrusion Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Wire - Hamilton Products 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrier Corporation (Franklin) 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal- Maine Foods Red River 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNB Global Inc 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dallas Underground, LLC 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5 Star Civil Construction 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Construction 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #386 MISHAWAKA, IN 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amcor Flexibles Shelbyville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Batavia City Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omnium - St. Joseph, MO 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micro 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Camp Hill 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle Retail Sales US SF Columbus 496 148 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.