Grocery Stores · Texas

80973-Houston Culinary Center

Houston, TX · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

80973-Houston Culinary Center runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

80973-Houston Culinary Center: 4.4 TCR = 108% of Grocery Stores BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

80973-Houston Culinary Center safety composite

80973-Houston Culinary Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

80973-Houston Culinary Center: 0.0 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2022

80973-Houston Culinary Center's TCR rose 8.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #19/32
  • PHOTO J Bar B Foods Waelder
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J Bar B Foods Waelder (0.0 TCR gap)

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80973-Houston Culinary Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 80973-Houston Culinary Center averages 4.4 TCR (108% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

80973-Houston Culinary Center TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=8.8 · BLS 4.1

Where 80973-Houston Culinary Center falls in its industry

376 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 32 Grocery Stores employers in Texas.

80973-Houston Culinary Center (87 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 80973-Houston Culinary Center
80973-Houston Culinary Center (87 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

80973-Houston Culinary Center has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.8 8.8 7 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · TX · Houston

376 Grocery Stores 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 J Bar B Foods Waelder 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Kitchen 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Bar B Foods Weimar 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrea Foods 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery- Longview,TX 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners - Southeast 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDLAND SVC CTR 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3697 MAPLESHADE LN PLANO TX 87 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 Thomas Engineering Company 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 60 - Arlington Heights 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Line Equipment - Towanda 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Manhattan 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1448 - Berlin 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1400 - Hanford 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1391 - SW Las Vegas 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1300 - Romeoville 87 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. 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.