Steel manufacturing · Texas

Lone Star Tubular Operations

South Lone Star, TX · ~416 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lone Star Tubular Operations runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lone Star Tubular Operations: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lone Star Tubular Operations safety composite

Lone Star Tubular Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Lone Star Tubular Operations: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2018

Lone Star Tubular Operations's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · South Lone Star, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #1/28
  • PHOTO Nucor Steel Decatur,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lone Star Tubular Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lone Star Tubular Operations averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lone Star Tubular Operations TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lone Star Tubular Operations falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 28 Steel manufacturing employers in Texas.

Lone Star Tubular Operations (416 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lone Star Tubular Operations
Lone Star Tubular Operations (416 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Lone Star Tubular Operations has more employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 0.9 0.4 5 0 0
2017 0.7 0.4 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · TX · South Lone Star

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 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 Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Hertford County 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AK Steel - Middletown Works 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AM/NS Calvert 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CoServ Elecrtic 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flagstone Foods, LLC 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battleground Manufacturing Complex 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeSoto Overhaul Center 416 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Venture Inc. - Transportation 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dyersburg Facility 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR REN192 Detroit 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MTKA01 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Siemens Energy Inc. - Mount Vernon 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Win River Resort and Casino 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists Association 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Social Services 416 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.