Oil refinery construction · Texas

Burns & McDonnell Constructors

Houston, TX · ~618 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burns & McDonnell Constructors runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Oil refinery construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Burns & McDonnell Constructors: 0.5 TCR = 18% of Oil refinery construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burns & McDonnell Constructors safety composite

Burns & McDonnell Constructors scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Burns & McDonnell Constructors: 0.2 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Burns & McDonnell Constructors's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.2 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #134/216
  • PHOTO South Texas Oil Fiel…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~618 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Texas Oil Field Maintenance, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burns & McDonnell Constructors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burns & McDonnell Constructors averages 0.5 TCR (18% of the Oil refinery construction BLS benchmark).

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

Burns & McDonnell Constructors TCR series: 2022=0.2 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Burns & McDonnell Constructors falls in its industry

809 Oil refinery construction establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 216 Oil refinery construction employers in Texas.

Burns & McDonnell Constructors (618 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Burns & McDonnell Constructors
Burns & McDonnell Constructors (618 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Burns & McDonnell Constructors has more employees than the Oil refinery construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 0.8 0.2 5 0 0
2023 0.5 0.0 1 1 0
2022 0.2 0.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · TX · Houston

809 Oil refinery construction 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 South Texas Oil Field Maintenance, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teichert Pipelines South 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkels & McCoy, Michigan - Gaylord 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashton Gray OFS, LLC. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stanton 2818 E FM 1212, Stanton, TX 79782 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big State Electric, Ltd. San Antonio 617 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freedom Solar, LLC 617 FTE
STATE-SIZE AAON Coil Products 617 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 Honeywell Plymouth-HSEMS 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Peak Logistics 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TK Elevator Indianapolis 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds- LHW 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Central Turkeys 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Berwyn 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE CV East LLC - CVE 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - VGT5 618 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, 2022. 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.