Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), secondary · Texas

Hydro Aluminum Commerce

Commerce, TX · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydro Aluminum Commerce runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), secondary workplace, earning a grade D.

Hydro Aluminum Commerce: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), secondary BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro Aluminum Commerce safety composite

Hydro Aluminum Commerce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Hydro Aluminum Commerce: 1.2 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2018

Hydro Aluminum Commerce's TCR rose 9.2 from 1.2 in 2017 to 10.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Commerce, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Decatur
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Decatur (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hydro Aluminum Commerce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro Aluminum Commerce averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro Aluminum Commerce TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydro Aluminum Commerce falls in its industry

103 Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e. establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e. employers in Texas.

Hydro Aluminum Commerce (62 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydro Aluminum Commerce
Hydro Aluminum Commerce (62 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Hydro Aluminum Commerce has fewer employees than the Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.4 3.5 5 1 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · TX · Commerce

103 Aluminum extrusion ingot (i.e., billet), secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 20 employers in Commerce, 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 Decatur 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kymera International - Reading Alloys 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Aluminum Processors 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentucky Smelting Technology 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE EP Energy - Eagle Ford (Dilley) 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Dog Drilling 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koserca Headquearters 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monahans 2790 South Wilma, Monahans, TX 79756 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 240 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR 240 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT TEXAS A&M UNIV-COMMERCE 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookshire's #052 84 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Christian Republic LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shepherdsville Dist Ctr 10360 (Kyspl) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 595 - TD Garden (MA) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise 45V3 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Waterford at Oshkosh 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams Civil Construction 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 207 Bristol 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waugh Foods, Inc. 62 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. 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.