Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Texas

MICA Steelworks Kaufman

Kaufman, TX · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MICA Steelworks Kaufman runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

MICA Steelworks Kaufman: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MICA Steelworks Kaufman safety composite

MICA Steelworks Kaufman scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

MICA Steelworks Kaufman: 5.7 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

MICA Steelworks Kaufman's TCR rose 7.9 from 5.7 in 2023 to 13.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Kaufman, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #168/182
  • PHOTO Doing Steel Fabricat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Doing Steel Fabrication - Joplin (0.0 TCR gap)

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MICA Steelworks Kaufman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MICA Steelworks Kaufman averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MICA Steelworks Kaufman TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=13.6 · BLS 3.3

Where MICA Steelworks Kaufman falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 182 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Texas.

MICA Steelworks Kaufman (94 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MICA Steelworks Kaufman
MICA Steelworks Kaufman (94 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

MICA Steelworks Kaufman has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 13.6 9.3 13 3 0
2023 5.7 5.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TX · Kaufman

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Kaufman, 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 Doing Steel Fabrication - Joplin 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DOWNEY CA- 9445 WASHBURN RD DOWNEY CA 90242 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Arts 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US TOWER CORP KANSAS FACILITY 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Dalhart 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corpus Christi Electric System Ops 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 31090 - NEUAG 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christensen Building Group, LLC 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4164 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4164 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR KLLM Transport Services (Kaufman, TX) 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 002 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman 196 FTE
NAT-TCR Iaosk - Oskaloosa 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Flbra - Bradenton Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Town and Country Resort 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mihow - Howell 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kelly's Foods 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 145 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zack Painting Co., Inc. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Framers LLC 94 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: 2024, 2023. 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.