Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis · Texas

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc.

Houston, TX · ~1,103 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade C.

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 94% of Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. safety composite

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc.: 0.6 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2024

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 0.6 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #32/48
  • PHOTO Cactus Drilling Rig …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~1,103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cactus Drilling Rig 133 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (94% of the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

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

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2021=2 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 1.9

Where Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. falls in its industry

171 Drilling gas and oil field wel establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 48 Drilling gas and oil field wel employers in Texas.

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. (1,103 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc.
Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. (1,103 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. has more employees than the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.4 0.7 17 0 0
2023 2.4 1.7 36 1 0
2022 2.6 2.0 38 0 0
2021 2.0 2.0 19 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · TX · Houston

171 Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis 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 Cactus Drilling Rig 133 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rig 114 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rig 164 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rig 148 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TX0326SS 1,103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zachry Construction Corporation 1,104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Palestine Processing 1,105 FTE
STATE-SIZE US TX Round Rock 03 1,105 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 Excalibur Well Services 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines CAE 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clutch & Brake Xchange 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DLP Maria Parham Medical Center - EVS 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JTEKT Automotive North America 1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cthar - Hartford 1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE DB Schenker--Carlisle 1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE 123569-North Metro Ga P&Dc 1,103 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.