Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161

Houston, TX · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161: 3.2 TCR = 145% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 safety composite

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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)
C 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161: 0.0 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.17× in 2024

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161's TCR rose 10.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 145% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #59/149
  • PHOTO Andersen - APBS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Andersen - APBS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 averages 3.2 TCR (145% of the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 falls in its industry

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 149 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in Texas.

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 (42 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161
Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 (42 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Dakota Hardwoods Houston #161 has more employees than the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.4 6.9 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · TX · Houston

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) 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 Andersen - APBS 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&B Builders Hardware 475 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FlexScreen Pittsburgh, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7200 ISSAQUAH LBM 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 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 Altium Packaging - York 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 291 - Sturgis MI 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Karshick St. IRA - Bohemia 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Marble Works, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Field 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Parma 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meade Construction Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEP005 - BOR-Boating 42 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, 2021. 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.