Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Texas

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern

Houston, TX · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern safety composite

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 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

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern: 5.2 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.2 in 2023 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #41/50
  • PHOTO thyssenkrupp Airport…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: thyssenkrupp Airport Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern TCR series: 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 50 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Texas.

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern (90 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern
Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern (90 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Windfern has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.7 4.5 5 0 0
2023 5.2 3.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TX · Houston

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR thyssenkrupp Airport Systems 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anaconda Foundry Fabrication Co. Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Build Solutions, LLC (Port) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chase Pecan, LP 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yates Field 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgeport Plant 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oklaunion Plant 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Innovative Fire Protection, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stewart & Tate Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SAK Builders 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeybear Growers LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fry Steel Co. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB Meadows 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE BiOrigin Specialty Products 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mober - St Louis Air Gateway 90 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. 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.