Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Texas

Essendant: Houston OE

Houston, TX · ~156 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Houston OE runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Essendant: Houston OE: 3.6 TCR = 166% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Houston OE safety composite

Essendant: Houston OE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Essendant: Houston OE held a steady TCR band

Essendant: Houston OE's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.2 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.2 · 2020=9.0 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO SP Richards - Woodland
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SP Richards - Woodland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Houston OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Houston OE averages 3.6 TCR (166% 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: Houston OE TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=9 · 2021=5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Houston OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #2 safest of 6 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Texas.

Essendant: Houston OE (156 employees, TCR 3.6) 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: Houston OE
Essendant: Houston OE (156 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Houston 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 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2023 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2021 5.0 1.7 6 0 0
2020 9.0 9.0 10 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · TX · Houston

87 Stationery supplies 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 SP Richards - Woodland 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCartney's Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guernsey, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant: Oaks OE FE 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scout Downhole 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Larrett Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belt Construction of Texas, LLC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graco Mechanical 156 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 756 - Providence 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McPherson Transportation 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 212 - Birmingham 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR VOANS, Senior Community Care of North Carolina 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Culpeper District Complex 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 540 - Baton Rouge 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 316 - Akron 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 210 - Jackson 156 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.