Copper secondary smelting and alloying · Utah

Mueller Copper Tube West Co.

Cedar City, UT · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Copper secondary smelting and alloying workplace, earning a grade F.

Mueller Copper Tube West Co.: 9.2 TCR = 278% of Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. safety composite

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−4.4

2019→2023

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. injury rate improved

Mueller Copper Tube West Co.'s TCR fell 4.4 from 12.9 in 2019 to 8.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.9 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Cedar City, UT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 278% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Howell Metals
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howell Metals (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mueller Copper Tube West Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mueller Copper Tube West Co. averages 9.2 TCR (278% of the Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS benchmark).

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

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. TCR series: 2019=12.9 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Mueller Copper Tube West Co. falls in its industry

198 Copper secondary smelting and establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Mueller Copper Tube West Co. (90 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mueller Copper Tube West Co.
Mueller Copper Tube West Co. (90 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Mueller Copper Tube West Co. has fewer employees than the Copper secondary smelting and alloying median and a higher 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
2023 8.5 2.8 6 0 0
2022 6.1 3.5 7 0 0
2019 12.9 7.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · UT · Cedar City

198 Copper secondary smelting and alloying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 56 employers in Cedar City, UT · 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 Howell Metals 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR I. Schumann & Co. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Metal Powders 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metallurgical Products Company 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big-D Food & Beverage 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEC Electric 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newman Construction Inc 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Salt Lake 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1438 554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar City Hospital 479 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar City Office 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1438 425 FTE
NAT-TCR Southwest Foodservice Excellence 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MJM Grand Inc 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lmmm Dallas #37, LTD 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 8807754-Lowes, GA 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SCA Performance, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carclo Technical Plastics- Tucson 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Country Manor Inc 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Machesney Park 90 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. 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.