Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Texas

JM Steel - Sinton TX

Sinton, TX · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JM Steel - Sinton TX runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

JM Steel - Sinton TX: 3.4 TCR = 153% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JM Steel - Sinton TX safety composite

JM Steel - Sinton TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

JM Steel - Sinton TX: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2022

JM Steel - Sinton TX's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2021 to 6.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Sinton, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 153% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #71/119
  • PHOTO Northwest Steel
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northwest Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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JM Steel - Sinton TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JM Steel - Sinton TX averages 3.4 TCR (153% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

JM Steel - Sinton TX TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where JM Steel - Sinton TX falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 119 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Texas.

JM Steel - Sinton TX (49 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate JM Steel - Sinton TX
JM Steel - Sinton TX (49 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

JM Steel - Sinton TX has more employees than the Pipe, metal, 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2022 6.7 5.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Sinton

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 18 employers in Sinton, 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 Northwest Steel 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jonesburg 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR UP 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yarde Metals, Inc.: Ohio 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WOLF CREEK FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Feedyard 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spandet Dairy Friona 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vist Grande Dairy 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Sinton 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics FR Sinton 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blanchette Field Services 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coonrod Electric Co. LLC 164 FTE
NAT-TCR SCF Towing 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tripler R Industries 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Die Casters Twins Cast 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Foley Whitehall PA 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG652 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE George B. Stone Co., LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goldring Gulf Distributing Company - Panama City 49 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: 2022, 2021. 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.