Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Texas

Precise Hard Chrome

Waco, TX · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Precise Hard Chrome runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Precise Hard Chrome: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Precise Hard Chrome safety composite

Precise Hard Chrome scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Precise Hard Chrome: 4.8 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Precise Hard Chrome's TCR rose 1.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #31/43
  • PHOTO Electro-Coatings of …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Electro-Coatings of Texas, inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Precise Hard Chrome in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Precise Hard Chrome averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Precise Hard Chrome TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=25.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Precise Hard Chrome falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 43 Electroplating metals and form employers in Texas.

Precise Hard Chrome (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Precise Hard Chrome
Precise Hard Chrome (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Precise Hard Chrome has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 25.4 3.6 7 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · TX · Waco

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, 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 Electro-Coatings of Texas, inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anaplex Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRG Global Coatings LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Techno Coatings, Inc. - North Miami 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TLM - Tree Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heifer Ranch @ Arroyo Seco 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dean Cluck Feedyard, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE CanTex Feeders LP 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Leggett & Platt Distribution 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Beloit Health System 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Paper (IN), LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Server Products Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Air Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express Pittsburgh Airport 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooklawn 10522 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Portland 10256 27 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.