Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing · Texas

GCS Houston

Houston, TX · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GCS Houston runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

GCS Houston: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GCS Houston safety composite

GCS Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

GCS Houston held a steady TCR band

GCS Houston's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/59
  • PHOTO Swagelok Valley City
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swagelok Valley City (0.0 TCR gap)

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GCS Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GCS Houston averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GCS Houston TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where GCS Houston falls in its industry

298 Compressed gas cylinder valves establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 59 Compressed gas cylinder valves employers in Texas.

GCS Houston (26 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GCS Houston
GCS Houston (26 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

GCS Houston has fewer employees than the Compressed gas cylinder valves manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · TX · Houston

298 Compressed gas cylinder valves manufacturing 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 Swagelok Valley City 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Control Components Inc 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valcor Engineering 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Valve, LP 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeling Cattle Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 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 CC Business Operations Ctr 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pfizer West Trenton 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Regal Distributing 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol-Myers Squibb Manufacturing Company 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-15970 Mountain Ave 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 179 Lincoln 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-510 S. Enterprise Blvd. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-58 PICKETT DISTRICT ROAD 26 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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