Couriers & Messengers · Texas

HOU

Houston, TX · ~340 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HOU runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Couriers & Messengers workplace, earning a grade B.

HOU: 3.8 TCR = 58% of Couriers & Messengers BLS 6.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HOU safety composite

HOU scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HOU: 3.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

HOU's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.6 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.8 · 58% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #66/463
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 126 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - WQQ1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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HOU in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HOU averages 3.8 TCR (58% of the Couriers & Messengers BLS benchmark).

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

HOU TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 6.5

Where HOU falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers & Messengers establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

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 463 Couriers & Messengers employers in Texas.

HOU (340 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate HOU
HOU (340 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

HOU has more employees than the Couriers & Messengers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2024 5.6 5.6 19 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 17 0 0
2022 5.5 5.5 20 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 14 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 8 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 6 0 0
2018 2.4 2.2 14 0 0
2017 3.8 2.4 19 0 0
2016 3.6 2.5 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · TX · Houston

6,679 Couriers & Messengers 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - WQQ1 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYROC - ROCHESTER 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jetsetter DSM1 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500 Hudson Valley Avenue 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Digco Utility Construction, L.P. 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treehouse Foods 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaris McCarty 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE LANCER Worldwide 340 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 Long Beach Nursing & Rehabiliation Center 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dollar Concrete Construction Company 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BlueScope Buildings 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lezzer Harrisburg 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capital Electric Construction Co., Inc. 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Actavis Elizabeth LLC - Elizabeth, NJ Location 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Valve Company 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Burlington 340 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.