Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers · Texas

DC5

Houston, TX · ~501 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DC5 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

DC5: 3.0 TCR = 138% of Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DC5 safety composite

DC5 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

DC5 held a steady TCR band

DC5's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.4 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=2.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 138% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #21/58
  • PHOTO EAST PENN DISTRIBUTI…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~501 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EAST PENN DISTRIBUTION SALT LAKE (0.0 TCR gap)

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DC5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DC5 averages 3.0 TCR (138% of the Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

DC5 TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where DC5 falls in its industry

950 Motor Vehicle Supplies and New establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 58 Motor Vehicle Supplies and New employers in Texas.

DC5 (501 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate DC5
DC5 (501 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

DC5 has more employees than the Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts Mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.7 2.5 14 0 0
2023 3.5 3.1 18 0 0
2022 4.5 4.1 21 1 0
2017 2.1 1.7 10 0 0
2016 2.4 1.7 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · TX · Houston

950 Motor Vehicle Supplies and New Parts 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 EAST PENN DISTRIBUTION SALT LAKE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit HVC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3084 Keystone Automotive Macon 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3213 Keystone Union City 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Well Services, LLC 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central MO Field Sales - PLANO TX 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Central Texas (A Division of Sysco USA 1, Inc) - New Braunfels Location 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Midstream Company 501 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 Select Specialty Hospital - Cleveland, LLC (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Cleveland Fairhill) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metalwest - Ogden 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stillwater Milling Ag-Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopewell 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mtech 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucson Water 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Springfield City Schools 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virco Manufacturing Corporation - Conway 501 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, 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.