Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Texas

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview

Longview, TX · ~178 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview safety composite

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview: 2.3 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.3 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Longview, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #38/50
  • PHOTO Philips Medical Syst…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philips Medical Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norris Cylinder Company- Longview in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norris Cylinder Company- Longview averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Norris Cylinder Company- Longview falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 50 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Texas.

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview (178 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Norris Cylinder Company- Longview
Norris Cylinder Company- Longview (178 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Norris Cylinder Company- Longview has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.2 4.8 11 0 0
2023 5.9 5.4 9 3 0
2022 2.6 1.8 7 0 0
2021 2.3 1.4 5 0 0
2020 4.8 2.4 10 0 0
2019 5.5 2.1 13 0 0
2018 4.1 2.5 10 0 0
2017 2.3 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · TX · Longview

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 259 employers in Longview, 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 Philips Medical Systems 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Servi-Sure LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unified Defense LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR G E Mathis Company 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinetik 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31041 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apres Management, Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE OIS-Port Arthur 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longview - GSMC 155 2,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Shepherd Medical Center - Longview 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company 1,535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Operations 1,500 FTE
NAT-TCR A-1 Advantage Asphalt, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #47 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Clara Office 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Puget Sound Regional Services 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gold Eagle Company 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shop Rite of Chatham 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hand Family Beverage 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grant Industries Inc. 178 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.