Marine cargo handling services · Texas

Galveston Pier 39

Galveston, TX · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Galveston Pier 39 runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade D.

Galveston Pier 39: 7.8 TCR = 172% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Galveston Pier 39 safety composite

Galveston Pier 39 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2019→2023

Galveston Pier 39 injury rate improved

Galveston Pier 39's TCR fell 6.2 from 12.5 in 2019 to 6.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.5 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Galveston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #49/52
  • PHOTO SSA Terminals Termin…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SSA Terminals Terminal 18 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Galveston Pier 39 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Galveston Pier 39 averages 7.8 TCR (172% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Galveston Pier 39 TCR series: 2019=12.5 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Galveston Pier 39 falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 52 Marine cargo handling services employers in Texas.

Galveston Pier 39 (90 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Galveston Pier 39
Galveston Pier 39 (90 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Galveston Pier 39 has more employees than the Marine cargo handling services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 6.3 5.3 6 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2021 8.1 2.7 3 0 0
2020 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2019 12.5 10.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · TX · Galveston

391 Marine cargo handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 76 employers in Galveston, 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 SSA Terminals Terminal 18 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FOSSAC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Federal Marine Terminals INC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Orleans Terminal, LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chase Pecan, LP 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yates Field 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgeport Plant 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oklaunion Plant 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galveston Office 991 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schlitterbahn Waterparks - Galveston 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&H Towing Company 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Luis Hotel 446 FTE
NAT-TCR Opportunity Development Centers, Inc. - ODCGS 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Farms LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OL Frontal Solutions 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Homeland 881 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lourdes Home Care 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective - Mankato 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armstrong Garden Centers 794 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Elgin 90 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.