Other Urban Transit Systems · Texas

205 Houston Metro Tx

Houston, TX · ~349 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

205 Houston Metro Tx runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Urban Transit Systems workplace, earning a grade D.

205 Houston Metro Tx: 8.8 TCR = 196% of Other Urban Transit Systems BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

205 Houston Metro Tx safety composite

205 Houston Metro Tx scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−5.9

2021→2023

205 Houston Metro Tx injury rate improved

205 Houston Metro Tx's TCR fell 5.9 from 11.8 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.8 · 2023=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485119 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 196% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO 038 Sf Fixed Route Ca
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~349 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 038 Sf Fixed Route Ca (0.5 TCR gap)

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205 Houston Metro Tx in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 205 Houston Metro Tx averages 8.8 TCR (196% of the Other Urban Transit Systems BLS benchmark).

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

205 Houston Metro Tx TCR series: 2021=11.8 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 205 Houston Metro Tx falls in its industry

179 Other Urban Transit Systems establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Other Urban Transit Systems employers in Texas.

205 Houston Metro Tx (349 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 205 Houston Metro Tx
205 Houston Metro Tx (349 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0

205 Houston Metro Tx has more employees than the Other Urban Transit Systems median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.9 5.7 31 1 0
2021 11.8 8.1 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485119 · TX · Houston

179 Other Urban Transit Systems 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 038 Sf Fixed Route Ca 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 299 Baton Rouge 2 La 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 254 Kings Student Transp Auth Ca 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 085 - Baltimore Md 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE U7091 - Bryan Mound Site GC 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Electrical & Instrumentation 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preferred Beef Group 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland Division 349 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 Les Schwab Tire Center-Oregon City 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gig Harbor/163 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Triumph Electric LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Massirio Dr 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primex Farms 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wamego Work Tools 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenleaf Corporation 349 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (6) 349 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. 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.