Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Texas

Thornton Steel Company, LLC

Fort Worth, TX · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thornton Steel Company, LLC runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Thornton Steel Company, LLC: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thornton Steel Company, LLC safety composite

Thornton Steel Company, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Thornton Steel Company, LLC: 6.3 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2022

Thornton Steel Company, LLC's TCR rose 2.0 from 6.3 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Fort Worth, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #148/182
  • PHOTO G PROULX BUILDING PR…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G PROULX BUILDING PRODUCTS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thornton Steel Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thornton Steel Company, LLC averages 6.1 TCR (184% 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

Thornton Steel Company, LLC TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=5.7 · 2022=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Thornton Steel Company, LLC falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #148 safest of 182 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Texas.

Thornton Steel Company, LLC (51 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Thornton Steel Company, LLC
Thornton Steel Company, LLC (51 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Thornton Steel Company, LLC has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher 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
2022 8.4 8.4 7 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2019 6.9 5.5 5 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2017 6.3 6.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TX · Fort Worth

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,346 employers in Fort Worth, 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 G PROULX BUILDING PRODUCTS LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canam Steel Corporation Washington,MO Facility 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Metal Fabricators, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metalworking Solutions, Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore County Gin 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsmith 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Directional Drilling 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Liquid Measurement, Inc. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Fort Worth Campus (1093) 13,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Children's Medical Center 4,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX- Fort Worth 4,667 FTE
NAT-TCR Tradewinds Building and Development 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Darling Ingredients 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 048 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Albertsons Sundries Distribution Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PFEWH05 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwi Cst 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acme Construction Company, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill of Colorado - Greeley 51 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.