Home Centers · Texas

6553 Howard Lane

Austin, TX · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6553 Howard Lane runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade C.

6553 Howard Lane: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6553 Howard Lane safety composite

6553 Howard Lane scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

6553 Howard Lane held a steady TCR band

6553 Howard Lane's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.6 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.6 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #217/508
  • PHOTO HOMEWOOD IL - 3345
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HOMEWOOD IL - 3345 (0.0 TCR gap)

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6553 Howard Lane in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6553 Howard Lane averages 3.6 TCR (106% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

6553 Howard Lane TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 6553 Howard Lane falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #217 safest of 508 Home Centers employers in Texas.

6553 Howard Lane (94 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 6553 Howard Lane
6553 Howard Lane (94 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

6553 Howard Lane has more employees than the Home Centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 4 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · TX · Austin

6,309 Home Centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 HOMEWOOD IL - 3345 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6355 FLORIDA CITY 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-1166 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1516 PARKER 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Dalhart 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corpus Christi Electric System Ops 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 31090 - NEUAG 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christensen Building Group, LLC 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR 6355 Florida City 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sjfu Haffey Hall 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EverZinc Clarksville TN 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Western NY Regional 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6178 Fishkill 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6876 South Chino 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4740 Chehalis 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4143 Warrington 94 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.