Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Texas

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC

San Antonio, TX · ~165 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC: 0.4 TCR = 16% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC safety composite

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC held a steady TCR band

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.8 in 2019 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.8 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · San Antonio, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #47/114
  • PHOTO Trans Ash, Inc. - Be…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trans Ash, Inc. - Belews Creek (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC averages 0.4 TCR (16% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC TCR series: 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 114 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Texas.

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC (165 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC
Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC (165 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hard Rock Directional Drilling LLC has more employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.8 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · TX · San Antonio

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,207 employers in San Antonio, 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 Trans Ash, Inc. - Belews Creek 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Track Generations, LLC. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herzog Contracting Corp. - GLX Constructors 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Pipe Fabrication Corpus Christi TX 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDD-Baird Ct. 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG HOU 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services at Eastman Chemical Company 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE OQ Chemicals Corporation Bay City TX 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bexar County Hospital District 8,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legend Oaks Health & Rehabilitation West San Antonio 6,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISS Facility Services Inc. 6,177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vida of San Antonio 5,262 FTE
NAT-TCR Elkay Plumbing Products 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR E. J. Breneman, L.L.C. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Black & Decker Miramar 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis Greenhouse 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4223-M2200 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewisburg Printing Company 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keiser Corporation 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Matex Tank Terminals-St Rose 165 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.