Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Texas

VAM USA Hardy

Houston, TX · ~256 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VAM USA Hardy runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade A.

VAM USA Hardy: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VAM USA Hardy safety composite

VAM USA Hardy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−0.4

2021→2024

VAM USA Hardy injury rate improved

VAM USA Hardy's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.9 in 2021 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.9 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/46
  • PHOTO Dayton Superior Corp…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dayton Superior Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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VAM USA Hardy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VAM USA Hardy averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

VAM USA Hardy TCR series: 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where VAM USA Hardy falls in its industry

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 46 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Texas.

VAM USA Hardy (256 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate VAM USA Hardy
VAM USA Hardy (256 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

VAM USA Hardy has more employees than the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.9 0.3 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · TX · Houston

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel 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 Dayton Superior Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plymouth Tube Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CORTEC MANIFOLD SYSTEMS 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanna Corporate 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Supreme Southwest 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal Health - El Paso Butterfield 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIELD SALES - CE/I DIVISION 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1797 - Austin Lakeline Mall Dr 256 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 Tishman Construction Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Enmark Stations, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waynesburg 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Frye Transportation Group, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Starbucks 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. Service 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE 297 - Valparaiso IN 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE 207 - Normal 256 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.