Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Texas

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive

Splendora, TX · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive safety composite

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive held a steady TCR band

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.7 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Splendora, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/50
  • PHOTO Laserweld Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Laserweld Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #13 safest of 50 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Texas.

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive (119 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive
Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive (119 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kennedy Fab - Kennedy Drive has more employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a lower 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
2021 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2018 1.7 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TX · Splendora

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Splendora, 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 Laserweld Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Mfg. Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Components Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zimmerman Machine Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Welsh 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles N White Construction 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE BOXX Modular Holdings, Inc. / Black Diamond Group Limited 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clearwater Utilities Inc. 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Records 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kennedy Fab - 2090 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLW Splendora 62 FTE
NAT-TCR Haworth Seating Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler Tea 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ho-Chunk Gaming-Madison 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR O.C. Tanner Manufacturing Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ace transfer and storage 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interactions Inc. dba Hoosier Refreshment Co. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gross School Bus Services 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston at Beacon Hill 119 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.