Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Texas

Vital Link Inc.

Sealy, TX · ~127 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vital Link Inc. runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vital Link Inc.: 8.5 TCR = 257% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Link Inc. safety composite

Vital Link Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Vital Link Inc.: 7.1 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Vital Link Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 7.1 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Sealy, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 257% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #42/43
  • PHOTO Kelly Group Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kelly Group Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vital Link Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Link Inc. averages 8.5 TCR (257% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vital Link Inc. TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=11 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=13.1 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Vital Link Inc. falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 43 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Texas.

Vital Link Inc. (127 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vital Link Inc.
Vital Link Inc. (127 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Vital Link Inc. has more employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 7.8 6.7 14 0 0
2023 4.7 4.0 7 0 0
2022 10.7 9.4 12 4 0
2021 13.1 9.2 16 1 0
2020 4.6 2.4 15 4 0
2019 11.0 6.4 10 2 0
2018 8.8 3.8 6 1 0
2017 7.1 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · TX · Sealy

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 31 employers in Sealy, 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 Kelly Group Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Structures, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&C Steel Corporation 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGRA TECH, INC. 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Dallas-Fort Worth 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Star Utilities 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd Texas 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bain Enterprises, LLC 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7036 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7036 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7836 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valerus Fields Solutions, Sealy Facility 299 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Yuma 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood Building Supply LLC 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Fabrication LLC 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Quarra Stone Company, LLC 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Broken Drum Insulation Visalia 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Jefferson City 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Pork Company 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 33001 127 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.