Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Texas

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce

Tyler, TX · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce: 5.5 TCR = 167% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce safety composite

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−3.4

2016→2017

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce injury rate improved

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce's TCR fell 3.4 from 7.2 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Tyler, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #60/69
  • PHOTO 52nd Paint West
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 52nd Paint West (0.0 TCR gap)

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ST Fastening Systems - Commerce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ST Fastening Systems - Commerce averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where ST Fastening Systems - Commerce falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 69 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Texas.

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce (110 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate ST Fastening Systems - Commerce
ST Fastening Systems - Commerce (110 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

ST Fastening Systems - Commerce has more employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2017 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2016 7.2 3.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · TX · Tyler

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 357 employers in Tyler, 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 52nd Paint West 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 101 Kindleberger 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rack Processing Dayton 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - San Antonio, LLC 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeport LNG HQ 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pearsall 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Communications Construction, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Invista Houston TX 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler - CTMF 380 3,897 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler Main Hospital 2,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Residential HVAC and Supply : MFG-Tyler,TX-USA 2,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Clinic - CTMF 381 1,705 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenwood Center (Scgre) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandpoint Center (Idsnd) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henkel - Cleveland 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 162 East Broadway 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gruber Technical, Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avante at Reidsville 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington (Wabur) 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havelock (Nchav) 110 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: 2017, 2016. 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.