Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Texas

Metal Prep.

Houston, TX · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Prep. runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Metal Prep.: 0.9 TCR = 29% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Prep. safety composite

Metal Prep. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−1.9

2020→2021

Metal Prep. injury rate improved

Metal Prep.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/69
  • PHOTO Specialty Coating Sy…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Specialty Coating Systems Indianapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Prep. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Prep. averages 0.9 TCR (29% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Prep. TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Prep. falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 91% 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 #10 safest of 69 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Texas.

Metal Prep. (42 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Metal Prep.
Metal Prep. (42 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Metal Prep. has fewer employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · TX · Houston

646 Coating metals and 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 Specialty Coating Systems Indianapolis 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sabre Industries Galvanizing Services 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR QuantumClean - Fremont 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ionbond - St.Paul 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 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 DILO Company Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Road 196 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Printing Company, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Pump & Manufacturing Co. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kgca County Attorney 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunoco Transportation Aloha 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Estates 507 LLC DBA Lenox Care Center 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azura Memory Care of Oak Creek 42 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.