Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade · Texas

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg

Houston, TX · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg safety composite

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2020→2021

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg injury rate improved

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg's TCR fell 5.8 from 6.2 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.2 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/69
  • PHOTO Pacific Galvanizing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Galvanizing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg TCR series: 2020=6.2 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg falls in its industry

646 Aluminum coating of metal prod establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 69 Aluminum coating of metal prod employers in Texas.

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg (168 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg
Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg (168 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Merchants Metals - Houston Mfg has more employees than the Aluminum coating of metal products for t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.2 4.3 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · TX · Houston

646 Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade 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 Pacific Galvanizing 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brightsmith LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Static Control Components - Plant 17 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford Finishing Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrington/Nichols Station 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDP 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison - Houston Division 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capstone Mechanical 168 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 339015-Westwood Po 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - Tampa 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DRB Group - Washington West 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 35001 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laaco, Ltd 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sekisui Voltek, LLC, Coldwater 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Walls Inc-Charlotte 168 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. 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.