Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing · Texas

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. safety composite

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2023

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333132 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #132/208
  • PHOTO Downing Wellhead Equ…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1 · BLS 3.3

Where BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. falls in its industry

316 Drilling equipment, oil and ga establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #132 safest of 208 Drilling equipment, oil and ga employers in Texas.

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. (87 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate BICO Drilling Tools, Inc.
BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. (87 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 1.3

BICO Drilling Tools, Inc. has fewer employees than the Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-ty median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333132 · TX · Houston

316 Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing 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 Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weir El Reno 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWC Frac Valves, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOI - MFG 1.5 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 JM Huber Marblehead IL 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Acterra Group Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : Chetek 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR James Madison University 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Janitorial Services (JBLM) 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE KR Mechanical, LLC. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centennial & Denver 9001 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adams Vegetable Oils 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.