Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Texas

Sefton Steel

Houston, TX · ~58 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sefton Steel runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sefton Steel: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sefton Steel safety composite

Sefton Steel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−3.3

2018→2023

Sefton Steel injury rate improved

Sefton Steel's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.6 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.6 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #108/182
  • PHOTO Jennmar West Kentucky
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jennmar West Kentucky (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sefton Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sefton Steel averages 3.6 TCR (109% 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

Sefton Steel TCR series: 2018=5.6 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sefton Steel falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #108 safest of 182 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Texas.

Sefton Steel (58 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Sefton Steel
Sefton Steel (58 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Sefton Steel 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
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2022 5.9 4.7 5 0 0
2021 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TX · Houston

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Jennmar West Kentucky 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chester - AOC Metal Works 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Fabrication & Steel LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thirteen RF, Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Feedyard 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flatonia Farm Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waelder 2 Complex 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complex 1 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-119-Warrenton ( RK-119 ) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital One McLean 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NTI Global 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whited Ford Truck Center 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triax Industries 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mettler CA 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polymerics Inc 58 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, 2021, 2020, 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.