Vertical Transportation Company · Texas

D53 Houston

Houston, TX · ~176 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D53 Houston runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vertical Transportation Company workplace, earning a grade A.

D53 Houston: 1.1 TCR = 38% of Vertical Transportation Company BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D53 Houston safety composite

D53 Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

D53 Houston injury rate improved

D53 Houston's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=1.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #24/97
  • PHOTO Southern Dock Produc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Dock Products - Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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D53 Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D53 Houston averages 1.1 TCR (38% of the Vertical Transportation Company BLS benchmark).

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

D53 Houston TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 2.8

Where D53 Houston falls in its industry

1,138 Vertical Transportation Compan establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 97 Vertical Transportation Compan employers in Texas.

D53 Houston (176 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D53 Houston
D53 Houston (176 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

D53 Houston has more employees than the Vertical Transportation Company median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 0 1 0
2020 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · TX · Houston

1,138 Vertical Transportation Company 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 Southern Dock Products - Houston 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Core Industrial 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diebold Nixdorf Charlotte NC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR McDonough Construction Rentals, Inc 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston Division Office 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jagoe-Public Company 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Houston 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3930 and 3925 Miller Park Dr 176 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 International Paper 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingsford Mfg 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Industrial Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boyd Sign Systems, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nccgo - Charlotte G O 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE GVS Puerto Rico LLC 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brand Scaffold Services Inc. - Chevron Refinery - El Segundo 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE GridSource 176 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.