Investment castings, steel, unfinished, manufacturing · Texas

Invest Cast, Inc - South

Balch Springs, TX · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Invest Cast, Inc - South runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Investment castings, steel, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Invest Cast, Inc - South: 4.7 TCR = 144% of Investment castings, steel, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Invest Cast, Inc - South safety composite

Invest Cast, Inc - South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−3.8

2022→2024

Invest Cast, Inc - South injury rate improved

Invest Cast, Inc - South's TCR fell 3.8 from 7.4 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.4 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Balch Springs, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 144% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO K.W. Thompson Tool C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K.W. Thompson Tool Co. Inc. dba Thompson Investment Casting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Invest Cast, Inc - South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Invest Cast, Inc - South averages 4.7 TCR (144% of the Investment castings, steel, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Invest Cast, Inc - South TCR series: 2022=7.4 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Invest Cast, Inc - South falls in its industry

89 Investment castings, steel, un establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

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 6 Investment castings, steel, un employers in Texas.

Invest Cast, Inc - South (29 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Invest Cast, Inc - South
Invest Cast, Inc - South (29 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Invest Cast, Inc - South has fewer employees than the Investment castings, steel, unfinished, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 7.4 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · TX · Balch Springs

89 Investment castings, steel, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 29 employers in Balch Springs, 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 K.W. Thompson Tool Co. Inc. dba Thompson Investment Casting 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yamaha 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamothermic Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCC Structurals 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pepper Dairy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE SROOC Holding LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Logging, LLC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AFW5 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AFW2 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1118 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1118 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant 326 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Collier Development Co., Inc d/b/a Creekstone Inn 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2303 Lexington 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Munch's Supply IL/IN - Elgin 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grimes Utilities Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennett 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dprint - 2710 New Tampa Hwy 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Street 29 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. 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.