Mail and Parcel Delivery · Texas

480039-Hou-North Shepherd

Houston, TX · ~173 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

480039-Hou-North Shepherd runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade F.

480039-Hou-North Shepherd: 10.3 TCR = 229% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

480039-Hou-North Shepherd safety composite

480039-Hou-North Shepherd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

480039-Hou-North Shepherd: 11.6 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2022

480039-Hou-North Shepherd's TCR rose 1.3 from 11.6 in 2017 to 12.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 229% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #800/959
  • PHOTO ONT-M
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ONT-M (0.0 TCR gap)

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480039-Hou-North Shepherd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 480039-Hou-North Shepherd averages 10.3 TCR (229% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

480039-Hou-North Shepherd TCR series: 2017=11.6 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=13.9 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=12.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 480039-Hou-North Shepherd falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #800 safest of 959 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Texas.

480039-Hou-North Shepherd (173 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 480039-Hou-North Shepherd
480039-Hou-North Shepherd (173 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

480039-Hou-North Shepherd has more employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 12.9 12.9 14 6 0
2021 6.4 6.4 10 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 11 0 0
2019 13.9 12.6 21 0 0
2018 10.1 8.2 16 0 0
2017 11.6 9.0 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · TX · Houston

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 ONT-M 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTH VALLEY_1375468 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUMNER_1383944 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAMES ISLAND_1437140 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rudtuk Operating LLC 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continenetal Homes of Texas, L.P. - San Antonio 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hull Associates 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4205-GCGV 173 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 281218-California Po 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 398340-Tul-Northeast Sta 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 055508-Oakland Po 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02956 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 282760-Florissant Mo Po 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-SW-20730092-CS 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tech Data Swedesboro 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 513408-Fredericksburg Po 173 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: 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.