General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Texas

BME - HCS - Houston

Houston, TX · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BME - HCS - Houston runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

BME - HCS - Houston: 3.0 TCR = 66% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BME - HCS - Houston safety composite

BME - HCS - Houston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

BME - HCS - Houston: 2.2 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2023

BME - HCS - Houston's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.2 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #175/297
  • PHOTO Dulles
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dulles (0.0 TCR gap)

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BME - HCS - Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BME - HCS - Houston averages 3.0 TCR (66% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

BME - HCS - Houston TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where BME - HCS - Houston falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #175 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

BME - HCS - Houston (39 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BME - HCS - Houston
BME - HCS - Houston (39 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

BME - HCS - Houston has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2022 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Houston

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Dulles 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Terminal - Hunt Transportation 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&S Midwest Carriers Corp. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CST CLE 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dumas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Wink TX 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAR SOUTH MINING LLC 39 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 Omaha Terminal - Hunt Transportation 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR VRS St Paul, MN 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheel Pros 1031 & 1053 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus Hospice Billings 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CRS International, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Canterbury 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmitz Silver Spring 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Oaks 39 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, 2020, 2019. 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.