Copper secondary smelting and alloying · Virginia

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube

New Market, VA · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Copper secondary smelting and alloying workplace, earning a grade F.

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube: 8.7 TCR = 262% of Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube safety composite

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube: 8.7 → 241.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 241.3 TCR · DART/TCR 16.74× in 2024

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube's TCR rose 232.7 from 8.7 in 2023 to 241.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 16.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · New Market, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 262% of ind

  • DART 144.8 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Mueller Fittings Com…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mueller Fittings Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howell Metals dba Precision Tube in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howell Metals dba Precision Tube averages 8.7 TCR (262% of the Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS benchmark).

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

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube TCR series: 2023=8.7 · 2024=241.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Howell Metals dba Precision Tube falls in its industry

198 Copper secondary smelting and establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Howell Metals dba Precision Tube (123 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Howell Metals dba Precision Tube
Howell Metals dba Precision Tube (123 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Howell Metals dba Precision Tube has more employees than the Copper secondary smelting and alloying 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
2024 241.3 144.8 5 0 0
2023 8.7 5.0 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · VA · New Market

198 Copper secondary smelting and alloying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 5 employers in New Market, VA · 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 Mueller Fittings Company 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essex Furukawa 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hussey Copper LTD. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berkshire Investments, LLC 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE M E Flow 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costen Floors, Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Specialty Cartons Richmond 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2837 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howell Metal Company 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of New Market 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howell Metals 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Market 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Santa Monica Seafood (New Mexico Location) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baltimore MD FXFE-BMM 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Z-man Fishing Products 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Milbank 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Burbank - Parks and Recreation - Community Service Centers/Cultural/Sp Programs 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midmark - Leesburg 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 02 - Dayton 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Fernando VL CA FXFE-SFV 123 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.