Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Texas

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant)

Kennedale, TX · ~355 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant): 3.0 TCR = 90% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) safety composite

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant): 2.1 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2019

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant)'s TCR rose 1.7 from 2.1 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Kennedale, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #93/182
  • PHOTO ReSteel Supply Co., …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~355 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ReSteel Supply Co., Inc. New England (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #93 safest of 182 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Texas.

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) (355 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant)
Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) (355 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Sabre-FWT, LLC (Kennedale Plant) has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a lower 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
2019 3.8 2.0 15 2 0
2018 2.1 1.7 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TX · Kennedale

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 17 employers in Kennedale, 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 ReSteel Supply Co., Inc. New England 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Rebar Fresno 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excel Stamping & Mfg., Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau - Nashville RS 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KWA Construction Main Office 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX141 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Auotmotive Group 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS PIPE & SUPPLY CO. - 01 TPS HOUSTON 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR FWT Kennedale Plant 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haros Brothers, Co. 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Office 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPG - Kennedale 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Target.com 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3352/3353 Keystone 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DCB Savannah 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX Salem 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Visting Nurse Service 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton Plant 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highlands Hospital 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heinz North America 355 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: 2019, 2018. 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.