Rope, wire, made from purchased wire · Texas

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore

Kilgore, TX · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rope, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade B.

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Rope, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore safety composite

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore held a steady TCR band

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=4.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Kilgore, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO Wire and Cable Speci…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wire and Cable Specialties, Inc. 440 Highlands (0.1 TCR gap)

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Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Rope, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore falls in its industry

270 Rope, wire, made from purchase establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 29 Rope, wire, made from purchase employers in Texas.

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore (35 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore
Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore (35 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Matex Wire Rope - Kilgore has fewer employees than the Rope, wire, made from purchased wire median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · TX · Kilgore

270 Rope, wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 51 employers in Kilgore, 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 Wire and Cable Specialties, Inc. 440 Highlands 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accent Packaging Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prysmian Group Schuylkill Haven 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kyocera SENCO Sales 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southwest Feedyard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDF Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. - Marion, TX 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Select Produce, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Kilgore 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orgill Kilgore Distribution Center 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 572 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR HTXKG01 328 FTE
NAT-TCR GA - Samsung 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newline Transport Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RMR Driver Services 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3721 Mahrt Mill 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richmond Market and Beverage 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson's Market 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Nc (Int'L Airport Dr) Depot 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Wi Depot 35 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.