Pig iron merchant wholesalers · Texas

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company

Name: J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company Workplace Safety Data
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Houston, TX · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pig iron merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company: 0.7 TCR = 34% of Pig iron merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company safety composite

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company held a steady TCR band

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 34% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #10/119
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BOOK 5y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A. J. Oster Foils, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company averages 0.7 TCR (34% of the Pig iron merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company falls in its industry

1,299 Pig iron merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 119 Pig iron merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company (25 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company has fewer employees than the Pig iron merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.7	3.7	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Houston

1,299 Pig iron 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	A. J. Oster Foils, Inc.	ALLIANCE, OH	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ryerson - Pounding Mill	POUNDING MILL, VA	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Metals USA Grand Rapids Location #545	WALKER, MI	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Metals USA Plates & Sapes - York	YORK, PA	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Village Farms of Monahans	MONAHANS	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lubbock Feeders, LLC	LUBBOCK	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd	HEREFORD	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508	PERRYTON	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH IAH	Houston	11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices	Houston	10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-IAH	Houston	9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center	Houston	8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR	North America : ABS Head Office	Sacramento, CA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Canton South Svc Ctr	Canton, OH	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Elgin	Elgin, IL	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	EM Management Services Inc	Canfield, OH	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Loffredo Fresh Foods - MAD	Deforest, WI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	765 Armstrong Garden Centers	Carlsbad, CA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kenosha Place 2	Kenosha, WI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Armstrong Garden Centers 728	La Canada, CA	25 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.