Commercial building construction · Texas

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors

Houston, TX · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors: 1.8 TCR = 62% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors safety composite

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors held a steady TCR band

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #184/327
  • PHOTO Commercial Contracto…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commercial Contractors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors averages 1.8 TCR (62% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #184 safest of 327 Commercial building constructi employers in Texas.

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors (75 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors
Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors (75 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Hervey-Barlow Specialty Contractors has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · TX · Houston

4,692 Commercial building construction 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 Commercial Contractors, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontaine Bros. Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&G Constructors 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayner Hoyt Corp 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crownover Farms dba Lone Star Family Farms 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village farms Marfa 1 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rice, TX 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE CACTUS OPERATING 75 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 North Charleroi Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - Wahiawa, HI - 5AFW3 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City Global Business Services (Utcst) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Salina (Kssal) 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Crestview LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Nixa LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haren & Laughlin Construction Co., Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Indianapolis 75 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.