Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Texas

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC

Name: AES Drilling Fluids, LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Houston, TX · ~445 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC: 0.8 TCR = 38% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC safety composite

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 0% 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

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC: 0.3 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2020

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.3 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 38% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #25/101
PHOTO Thompson Brothers
BOOK 3y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~445 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thompson Brothers (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows AES Drilling Fluids, LLC averages 0.8 TCR (38% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC TCR series: 2018=0.3 · 2019=1 · 2020=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where AES Drilling Fluids, LLC falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 101 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Texas.

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC (445 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

AES Drilling Fluids, LLC has more employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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	Fatalities
2020	1.2	0.7	5	0
2019	1.0	0.5	6	1
2018	0.3	0.2	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TX · Houston

766 Industrial chemicals 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Thompson Brothers	COFFEYVILLE, KS	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Twinsburg Enterprise 0076	TWINSBURG, OH	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hillyard Springfield	SPRINGFIELD, MO	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Research Solutions Group, Inc. - Pelham	PELHAM, AL	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Glazers Beer And Beverage San Antonio	DALLAS	445 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 3136	HORIZON CITY	445 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3224	GARLAND	445 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FedEx 5000 HANSON DR	IRVING	445 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH IAH	Houston	11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices	Houston	10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-IAH	Houston	9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center	Houston	8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR	USM Services Inc. - USM Inc.	Norristown, PA	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	TRA:TR005 - TR005-Moultrie, GA	Moultrie, GA	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Home Office HO	Lakewood, CO	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Yamasa Enterprises	Los Angeles,, CA	0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pine Hill Mill	Pine Hill, AL	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Filtration : Modesto EMOE Mari	Modesto, CA	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando	Orlando, FL	445 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Star Tribune Media Holdings Corporate	Minneapolis, MN	445 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.