Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Oregon

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc.

Portland, OR · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. safety composite

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−12.9

2016→2020

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. injury rate improved

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc.'s TCR fell 12.9 from 12.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.9 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Cupples J&J Dyersburg
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cupples J&J Dyersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Oregon employers → · Look up another →

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.9 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Oregon.

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. (19 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 R & J Metal Fabricators Inc.
R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. (19 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. has fewer employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a higher 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.8 9.9 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 12.9 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · OR · Portland

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Cupples J&J Dyersburg 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel-Fab, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TrueNorth Steel- Huron 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida Marine Tanks 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brentano Farms Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMPO 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heirloom Farms, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE OR/PAC Feed & Forage 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Customized - NJ - 0809 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudson Dairy, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ex-Tech Plastics, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton Medical Center 6.7 TCR

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: 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.