Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Texas

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone

Houston, TX · ~153 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone safety composite

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone: 1.6 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2021

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #18/59
  • PHOTO 44211A - ATHENS BIN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 44211A - ATHENS BIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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43491d - Houston Southwest Zone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43491d - Houston Southwest Zone averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0 · 2021=2 · BLS 2.2

Where 43491d - Houston Southwest Zone falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 59 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Texas.

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone (153 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 43491d - Houston Southwest Zone
43491d - Houston Southwest Zone (153 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43491d - Houston Southwest Zone has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.6 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · TX · Houston

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers 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 44211A - ATHENS BIN 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44441S - MIDWAY 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43421A - AUSTIN DC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49311C - REDMOND DC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pharr Service Center 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercedes Office 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Houston 153 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 44211a - Athens Bin 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Ind - NW Ohio Deveaux Retail Store 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Recycling - Phoenix 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Canobie Lake Park-Fast Food 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage Operations Group - CO #101 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-NVSP 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applewood Plumbing, Heating and Electric 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisonburg Pack 153 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: 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.