Other Building Material Dealers · Texas

Gulf & Basco

Houston, TX · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gulf & Basco runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gulf & Basco: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gulf & Basco safety composite

Gulf & Basco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2019→2021

Gulf & Basco injury rate improved

Gulf & Basco's TCR fell 2.3 from 7.9 in 2019 to 5.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #79/180
  • PHOTO WHOLESALE BUILDING P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WHOLESALE BUILDING PRODUCTS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gulf & Basco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gulf & Basco averages 5.3 TCR (156% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Gulf & Basco TCR series: 2019=7.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=5.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Gulf & Basco falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 180 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Texas.

Gulf & Basco (45 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gulf & Basco
Gulf & Basco (45 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Gulf & Basco has more employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2021 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 7.9 7.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · TX · Houston

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers 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 WHOLESALE BUILDING PRODUCTS LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProWall 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tindell's Halls Locations 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schluter Systems, Texas 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coronado Feeders 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE FireBird Energy LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Admiral Permian Resources 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cougar Completion Services LP 45 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 Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-50541) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R & D Pipeline Construction Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Pt Everglades 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chat of Pa. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE S03797 - Lafayette Hauling 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunflower #9121 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07287 - Sun Valley Recycling Park 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratasys, Inc. - Wallace road 45 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: 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.