Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Missouri

Watson Metal Masters

Springfield, MO · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watson Metal Masters runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Watson Metal Masters: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watson Metal Masters safety composite

Watson Metal Masters scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Watson Metal Masters: 6.0 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Watson Metal Masters's TCR rose 8.3 from 6.0 in 2016 to 14.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Springfield, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Baker Tankhead Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baker Tankhead Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Watson Metal Masters in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watson Metal Masters averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Watson Metal Masters TCR series: 2016=6 · 2019=4.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=14.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Watson Metal Masters falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Missouri.

Watson Metal Masters (82 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Watson Metal Masters
Watson Metal Masters (82 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Watson Metal Masters has more employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher 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
2024 14.3 6.5 11 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.8 3.6 4 0 0
2016 6.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · MO · Springfield

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 633 employers in Springfield, MO · 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 Baker Tankhead Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alloy Custom Products, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Tank of New York 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luxfer Gas Cylinders 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Lake Road Generating Facility 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bordner Home Improvement 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storee Construction Co 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & E Flatwork LLC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD 4,885 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime, Inc. HQ 3,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corp 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bass Pro Corporate 1,888 FTE
NAT-TCR Txama - Amarillo 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohzan - Zanesville 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Chicago 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6305 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Hill Heights LLC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Manufacturing Industries, Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMS - Sanctuary St. Cloud 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE East LA 82 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, 2019, 2016. 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.