Steel Manufacturing · Texas

Material Services Plant

Houston, TX · ~84 workers · 6 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

Material Services Plant runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Material Services Plant: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Steel Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Material Services Plant safety composite

Material Services Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2016→2021

Material Services Plant injury rate improved

Material Services Plant's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #34/108
  • PHOTO CREW - ARCo
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CREW - ARCo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Material Services Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Material Services Plant averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Steel Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Material Services Plant TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Material Services Plant falls in its industry

1,821 Steel Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 108 Steel Manufacturing employers in Texas.

Material Services Plant (84 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Material Services Plant
Material Services Plant (84 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Material Services Plant has more employees than the Steel Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 2.3 4 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Houston

1,821 Steel 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 CREW - ARCo 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam Houston Parkway 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fathom / Tempe 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Special Tool Solutions 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE RGJC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burnett Ranches 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Feedyard LP 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE FARMERS BRANCH OFFICE 84 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 Nucla Generating Station 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Lompoc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiffany & Co. NY 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ludvik Electric Co. - Colorado 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foods Galore Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florikan ESA 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reasors17 84 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, 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.