Freight Trucking LTL · Texas

521 Houston

Houston, TX · ~292 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

521 Houston runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade C.

521 Houston: 4.3 TCR = 94% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

521 Houston safety composite

521 Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

521 Houston: 2.4 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

521 Houston's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.4 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 94% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #95/237
  • PHOTO MERCEDES DMB
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~292 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MERCEDES DMB (0.0 TCR gap)

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521 Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 521 Houston averages 4.3 TCR (94% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

521 Houston TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 521 Houston falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 237 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Texas.

521 Houston (292 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 521 Houston
521 Houston (292 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

521 Houston has more employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 6.1 4.8 18 0 0
2016 2.4 2.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Houston

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL 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 MERCEDES DMB 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MO-Saint Louis-621-YRC Freight 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAU 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga TN Cleveland Shop 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Permian Resources Delaware Basin New Mexico 292 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak Farms San Antonio - San Antonio 292 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gri Towers USA INC 292 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Tex Mt Pleasant 292 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 Accella Polyurethane Systems Cartersville Plant 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Basin, CA 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - West Reading North 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lvmpd - Dsd 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nationwide Office Cleaners, LLC 292 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donan Engineering 292 FTE
NAT-SIZE O'Hare (Iloha) 292 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berkeley - Hayward 292 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: 2018, 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.