Zinc refining, primary · Texas

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant

Houston, TX · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Zinc refining, primary workplace, earning a grade A.

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Zinc refining, primary BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant safety composite

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant held a steady TCR band

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO DC Alabama, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DC Alabama, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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US Zinc Houston Dust Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US Zinc Houston Dust Plant averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Zinc refining, primary BLS benchmark).

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

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where US Zinc Houston Dust Plant falls in its industry

57 Zinc refining, primary establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Zinc refining, primary employers in Texas.

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant (37 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate US Zinc Houston Dust Plant
US Zinc Houston Dust Plant (37 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

US Zinc Houston Dust Plant has fewer employees than the Zinc refining, primary median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · TX · Houston

57 Zinc refining, primary 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 DC Alabama, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATI Albany Operations - 34th 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mitsubishi Polycrystalline Silicon America Corporation 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Base Metals Refinery 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fannin Growing 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bovina Cattle Company 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyland Grain, LLC- Spearman Gin 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alura Cogen 37 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 Olmsted Locks and Dam Project 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ESI Electrical Contractors 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield, MA/Hartford/New Haven, CT HVAC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Heights Health Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Metal Finishing South Bend 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Manufacturing-Glasgow 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Corporate Services 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Factory 37 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.