Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · Texas

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX

Sherman, TX · ~194 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX safety composite

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX: 3.9 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2019

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Sherman, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO MI Metals - Oldsmar
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MI Metals - Oldsmar (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=7 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in Texas.

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX (194 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX
Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX (194 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Kaiser Aluminum - Sherman TX has more employees than the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2019 5.8 5.3 12 0 0
2018 5.1 3.4 10 2 0
2017 7.0 5.6 14 1 0
2016 3.9 3.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · TX · Sherman

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sherman, 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 MI Metals - Oldsmar 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexandria Extrusion Company 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aerolite LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Extrudex Aluminum, Inc 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE EL PASO TX SC N 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandway West Office 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Katy, TX (OPD Field) 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Occidental OxyChem Ingleside TX 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health 6,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman Case Rdy Plant 1,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson N. Jones Regional Medical Center 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman 675 FTE
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CVG3 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hub Folding Box Company Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Denny's Store #392 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orange Courier Inc 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loudon County Trucking, LLC 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Square - SPR 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Enterprises LLC 194 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.