Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Texas

Tower Steel Services, Inc.

Tomball, TX · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Steel Services, Inc. runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tower Steel Services, Inc.: 8.8 TCR = 267% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Steel Services, Inc. safety composite

Tower Steel Services, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Tower Steel Services, Inc.: 4.8 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2023

Tower Steel Services, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 4.8 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 267% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #163/182
  • PHOTO The Butler Weldments…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Butler Weldments Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Steel Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tower Steel Services, Inc. averages 8.8 TCR (267% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tower Steel Services, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=10 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=16.9 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tower Steel Services, Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #163 safest of 182 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Texas.

Tower Steel Services, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Tower Steel Services, Inc.
Tower Steel Services, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Tower Steel Services, Inc. has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur 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
2023 6.7 4.8 7 0 0
2021 16.9 10.2 14 1 0
2020 5.7 5.7 5 0 0
2019 10.0 7.8 8 1 0
2018 4.8 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · TX · Tomball

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 90 employers in Tomball, 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 The Butler Weldments Corporation 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jeffords Steel and Engineering Company - Plattsburgh 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Metro Saw Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Steel, LLC 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE FLOYDADA COOP GIN 2 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holman Well Service 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodlands Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Huntsville 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR TOMBALL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates (TB) 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates (Sun) 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5045 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Pittsburgh Penguins 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KA&S Construction LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MGS, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2588 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Megabus 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Metco INC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neville 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Cloud Service Center-LB 77 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, 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.