Machine shops · Texas

D&S Machine Works Inc.

Houston, TX · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D&S Machine Works Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

D&S Machine Works Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D&S Machine Works Inc. safety composite

D&S Machine Works Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

D&S Machine Works Inc.: 0.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

D&S Machine Works Inc.'s TCR rose 11.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #58/108
  • PHOTO Square One Engineering
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Square One Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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D&S Machine Works Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D&S Machine Works Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

D&S Machine Works Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where D&S Machine Works Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 108 Machine shops employers in Texas.

D&S Machine Works Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D&S Machine Works Inc.
D&S Machine Works Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

D&S Machine Works Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 11.8 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Houston

1,821 Machine shops 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 Square One Engineering 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro-Fab Machine of Hartselle, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kirsan Engineering 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kluba Machine 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAZOS RIVER SOD FARM 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coyote Lake Feeders LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimmitt Feedyard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 30 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 LeafGuard of Huntsville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DTNA Charlotte - I2M. (SMRU0651) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-MI2CW9779 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange County North 32020 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerben Leyendekker Dairy 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whispering Oaks 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York City 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Brick Plant 30 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.