Gas meter reading services, contract · Texas

Black & McDonald - Austin

Austin, TX · ~16 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black & McDonald - Austin runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gas meter reading services, contract workplace, earning a grade A.

Black & McDonald - Austin: 0.6 TCR = 22% of Gas meter reading services, contract BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black & McDonald - Austin safety composite

Black & McDonald - Austin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Black & McDonald - Austin held a steady TCR band

Black & McDonald - Austin's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Austin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO 203 Melbourne
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 203 Melbourne (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black & McDonald - Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black & McDonald - Austin averages 0.6 TCR (22% of the Gas meter reading services, contract BLS benchmark).

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

Black & McDonald - Austin TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Black & McDonald - Austin falls in its industry

208 Gas meter reading services, co establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Gas meter reading services, co employers in Texas.

Black & McDonald - Austin (16 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black & McDonald - Austin
Black & McDonald - Austin (16 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Black & McDonald - Austin has fewer employees than the Gas meter reading services, contract median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.5 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · TX · Austin

208 Gas meter reading services, contract 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 203 Melbourne 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR D2K Traffic Safety, Inc 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104 Oakwood 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vector Force Development LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 205 W.Expressway 83 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX-DJF-TEXAS 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Gin @ Palacios 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeview Coop Gin 16 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 Customer Service Group Carson City Velocity Center 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR O&M CMI Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ConocoPhillips Alaska - Alpine 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Hoosier Company, Inc. 0.6 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 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.