Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Texas

Essendant: Dallas OE

Irving, TX · ~220 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Dallas OE runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Essendant: Dallas OE: 3.9 TCR = 175% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Dallas OE safety composite

Essendant: Dallas OE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Essendant: Dallas OE: 1.9 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Essendant: Dallas OE's TCR rose 2.7 from 1.9 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Irving, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Essendant: Oaks OE FE
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essendant: Oaks OE FE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Dallas OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Dallas OE averages 3.9 TCR (175% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant: Dallas OE TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Dallas OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Texas.

Essendant: Dallas OE (220 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant: Dallas OE
Essendant: Dallas OE (220 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Dallas OE has more employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.5 2.8 8 0 0
2023 3.7 2.1 7 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 6 0 0
2021 6.8 4.5 9 0 0
2020 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2019 1.9 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · TX · Irving

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 548 employers in Irving, 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 Essendant: Oaks OE FE 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Environmental Solutions LLC - Ottawa, IL (Dayton Rd) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCartney's Inc. 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ ExxonMobil Baytown 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knife River Corporation South Bryan/College Station 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenn Thurman, Inc. 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50CP001 CORP LAS COLINAS 4,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR TXC101551 2,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCH Corporation 2727 1,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RBD5 1,964 FTE
NAT-TCR Deseret Farms of California 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2326 - Omaha Far NW 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Headquarters 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Verst Langley 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salem District Complex 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Housing Development Agency 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0280 - Southland 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0843 - Hodgkins 220 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.