General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL · Texas

HOU-ODFL

Houston, TX · ~211 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HOU-ODFL runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL workplace, earning a grade B.

HOU-ODFL: 3.3 TCR = 73% of General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HOU-ODFL safety composite

HOU-ODFL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HOU-ODFL: 3.5 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2022

HOU-ODFL's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.5 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 73% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #66/237
  • PHOTO XRF
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XRF (0.0 TCR gap)

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HOU-ODFL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HOU-ODFL averages 3.3 TCR (73% of the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS benchmark).

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

HOU-ODFL TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where HOU-ODFL falls in its industry

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 237 General Freight Trucking, long employers in Texas.

HOU-ODFL (211 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HOU-ODFL
HOU-ODFL (211 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

HOU-ODFL has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 5.1 4.7 13 0 0
2021 3.1 0.9 7 0 0
2020 4.3 2.1 7 1 0
2019 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 4 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Houston

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL 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 XRF 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medford OR FXFE-MED 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-YR-617 YT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 51-ROCHESTER TERMINAL 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Structure Tone Southwest 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE PICCo - 6300239 P66 Sweeny 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Constructors, Inc. 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERZOG TECHNOLOGIES INC 211 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 Lunds & Byerlys, Downtown Mpls 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #712 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vertex Refining OH LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 470 - Groton 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skills Development Services, Inc 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primm Valley 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE R. Montanez Farms, LLC 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMR Contracting 211 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.