Steel wool manufacturing · Texas

Magni-Fab Southwest Co.

Howe, TX · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
27.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. runs at 838% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel wool manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Magni-Fab Southwest Co.: 27.7 TCR = 838% of Steel wool manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. safety composite

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 27.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Magni-Fab Southwest Co.: 4.8 → 47.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 47.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2018

Magni-Fab Southwest Co.'s TCR rose 42.9 from 4.8 in 2016 to 47.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Howe, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 27.7 · 838% of ind

  • DART 15.9 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO Venango Steel, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Venango Steel, Inc. (2.2 TCR gap)

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Magni-Fab Southwest Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Magni-Fab Southwest Co. averages 27.7 TCR (838% of the Steel wool manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=30.4 · 2018=47.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Magni-Fab Southwest Co. falls in its industry

827 Steel wool manufacturing establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #39 safest of 39 Steel wool manufacturing employers in Texas.

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. (71 employees, TCR 27.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Magni-Fab Southwest Co.
Magni-Fab Southwest Co. (71 employees, TCR 27.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Magni-Fab Southwest Co. has more employees than the Steel wool 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
2018 47.8 15.9 7 2 0
2017 30.4 12.2 3 2 0
2016 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · TX · Howe

827 Steel wool manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Howe, 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 Venango Steel, Inc. 25.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hale Pet Door National LLC 25.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duo Safety Ladder Corporation 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AET 22.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Andrews 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYSTEM OPERATIONS 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Location 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fannin Growing 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR premier truck group of north texas 24 FTE
NAT-TCR KidsPeace Hospital 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CSJI-Tiffin 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Latrobe LLC Dsp 27.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6957-ONT 27.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springfield Site 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5197-00 Wawa-DCM/Logan Township, NJ 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Branch 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakkota Corporate Brighton 71 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.