Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Texas

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX

Dayton, TX · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX safety composite

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX held a steady TCR band

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.0 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Dayton, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO National Wire LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Wire LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Texas.

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX (85 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX
Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX (85 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX has more employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2018 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · TX · Dayton

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 29 employers in Dayton, 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 National Wire LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vimco.250 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR USAC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products KYW 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amycel Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE LANE CITY SOD FARM 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Follett Dairy Farm 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Double S Dairies 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Transport 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forum Energy Technologies - Dayton 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6698 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Insteel Wire Products TXW 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacobs Vehicle Systems 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Recycling Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Direct- New Orleans 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Hanover 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 810 Purple Cow Creamery 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ransom PA 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 90003930 Canal 3 Simple Cycle Project 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Heights Terminal 85 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.