Retail · Texas

242 Houston (Dacoma)

Houston, TX · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

242 Houston (Dacoma) runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade D.

242 Houston (Dacoma): 4.3 TCR = 125% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

242 Houston (Dacoma) safety composite

242 Houston (Dacoma) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2021→2023

242 Houston (Dacoma) injury rate improved

242 Houston (Dacoma)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 4.2 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.2 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442210 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/46
  • PHOTO Ronnie's Carpets, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ronnie's Carpets, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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242 Houston (Dacoma) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 242 Houston (Dacoma) averages 4.3 TCR (125% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

242 Houston (Dacoma) TCR series: 2021=4.2 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 242 Houston (Dacoma) falls in its industry

345 Retail establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

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 46 Retail employers in Texas.

242 Houston (Dacoma) (65 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 242 Houston (Dacoma)
242 Houston (Dacoma) (65 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 9.8

242 Houston (Dacoma) has more employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2021 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442210 · TX · Houston

345 Retail 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 Ronnie's Carpets, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 274 Baton Rouge 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carpet Corner, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akin Brothers Flooring LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HANSFORD COUNTY FEEDERS, LP 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northside Farms, LLC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilco Peanut Co. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2348-Aiken, TX 65 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 Maple Heights 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lithia Reno Subaru 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox C Holding, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SFEG-Fairview 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cheshire MA Collection 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE The J.M. Smucker Company Topeka Distribution Center 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greater Quad City Auto Auction LLP 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Wire Products Company 65 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, 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.