Manufacture of insulation metal jacketing · Texas

Houston Metals

Houston, TX · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Metals runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Manufacture of insulation metal jacketing workplace, earning a grade C.

Houston Metals: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Manufacture of insulation metal jacketing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Metals safety composite

Houston Metals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2019→2024

Houston Metals injury rate improved

Houston Metals's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332119 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/22
  • PHOTO Fine Line Production
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fine Line Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Metals averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Manufacture of insulation metal jacketing BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Metals TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston Metals falls in its industry

477 Manufacture of insulation meta establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 22 Manufacture of insulation meta employers in Texas.

Houston Metals (74 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Metals
Houston Metals (74 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Houston Metals has more employees than the Manufacture of insulation metal jacketin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.1 2.6 3 1 0
2021 2.8 2.8 0 2 0
2020 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332119 · TX · Houston

477 Manufacture of insulation metal jacketing 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 Fine Line Production 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mineral Springs 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Micro 100 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pressed Metal Corporation 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acrosa Crushed Concrete 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolk Station-124 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft. Bend Service Center CP18 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Headquarters and Corporate Services 74 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 Ferguson Fire & Fabrication Inc: CO Commerce City-5350 Newport St 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Siema Construction LLC Lafayette 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Centenary Univ Dining Hall 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 055m - Somerset Ky Rntl 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Springs CO FXFE-COS 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Susquehanna Auto, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landings of Oregon 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intec Services, Inc 74 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.