Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston Special Metals, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Special Metals, Inc. runs at 537% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Special Metals, Inc.: 11.8 TCR = 537% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Special Metals, Inc. safety composite

Houston Special Metals, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Houston Special Metals, Inc.: 4.5 → 21.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2021

Houston Special Metals, Inc.'s TCR rose 16.9 from 4.5 in 2019 to 21.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.36× 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 11.8 · 537% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #117/119
  • PHOTO Benjamin Steel Co-Lima
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benjamin Steel Co-Lima (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Special Metals, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Special Metals, Inc. averages 11.8 TCR (537% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Special Metals, Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=21.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Special Metals, Inc. falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #117 safest of 119 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Texas.

Houston Special Metals, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 11.8) 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 Houston Special Metals, Inc.
Houston Special Metals, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Houston Special Metals, Inc. has fewer employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers 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
2021 21.4 16.0 4 0 0
2020 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Houston

1,299 Pipe, metal, 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 Benjamin Steel Co-Lima 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jemison Metals - Gadsden 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Metal Supply Newark 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Performance Metals - CHI 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Sales 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springlake Dairy LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darty Gin Inc 24 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 Walker Rebar Inc 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CFS NorCal - San Jose 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Plastics-Ubly Inc -Mi 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pahrump Health & Rehab 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CAN016-PHFE-CAN016 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Head Start-Ironton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center EM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRI - Iowa 24 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. 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.