Lift trucks, industrial, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Briggs Equipment Houston

Houston, TX · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Briggs Equipment Houston runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lift trucks, industrial, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Briggs Equipment Houston: 1.6 TCR = 74% of Lift trucks, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Briggs Equipment Houston safety composite

Briggs Equipment Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

Briggs Equipment Houston injury rate improved

Briggs Equipment Houston's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.0 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.0 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #62/130
  • PHOTO H&K Equipment
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H&K Equipment (0.0 TCR gap)

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Briggs Equipment Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Briggs Equipment Houston averages 1.6 TCR (74% of the Lift trucks, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Briggs Equipment Houston TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Briggs Equipment Houston falls in its industry

911 Lift trucks, industrial, merch establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 130 Lift trucks, industrial, merch employers in Texas.

Briggs Equipment Houston (126 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Briggs Equipment Houston
Briggs Equipment Houston (126 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Briggs Equipment Houston has more employees than the Lift trucks, industrial, merchant wholes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · TX · Houston

911 Lift trucks, industrial, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR H&K Equipment 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burns Industrial Lift 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Rapids CSG 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glatt Air Techniques, Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GVEC Gonzales 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trophy Signature Homes LLC 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation - All jobsites less than a year 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey-Cleary Builders - Austin 126 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 White Dove Mattress 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Paper 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferrara Fire Apparatus 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Strategic Connections Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PS Trucking Inc. 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glen Burnie 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oaks of Brecksville 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lyman Group Inc 126 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.