Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Texas

HL Flake Company, LLC

Houston, TX · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HL Flake Company, LLC runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

HL Flake Company, LLC: 1.7 TCR = 76% of Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HL Flake Company, LLC safety composite

HL Flake Company, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HL Flake Company, LLC: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

HL Flake Company, LLC's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423850 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/28
  • PHOTO Essendant: Cleveland…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essendant: Cleveland FE (0.0 TCR gap)

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HL Flake Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HL Flake Company, LLC averages 1.7 TCR (76% of the Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

HL Flake Company, LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where HL Flake Company, LLC falls in its industry

253 Locksmith equipment and suppli establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 28 Locksmith equipment and suppli employers in Texas.

HL Flake Company, LLC (87 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 HL Flake Company, LLC
HL Flake Company, LLC (87 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.1

HL Flake Company, LLC has more employees than the Locksmith equipment and supplies merchan median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.3 1.1 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423850 · TX · Houston

253 Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers 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 Essendant: Cleveland FE 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Paper Company, Inc. Tyler Office 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Atlanta 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery- Longview,TX 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners - Southeast 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDLAND SVC CTR 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3697 MAPLESHADE LN PLANO TX 87 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 Pekin Family Education Center 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson Concrete Ltd. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flagala Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 778 North Bergen, Nj 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nucor Grating - Bourbonnais 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honolulu Station 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charolais Care III, Inc. dba Desert View Care Center of Buhl 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fondomonte Vicksburg Farm 87 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.