Used car merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston 1st Choice

Houston, TX · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston 1st Choice runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Used car merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston 1st Choice: 2.9 TCR = 132% of Used car merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston 1st Choice safety composite

Houston 1st Choice scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2020

Houston 1st Choice injury rate improved

Houston 1st Choice's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #51/132
  • PHOTO Coast Counties Peter…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coast Counties Peterbilt - San Jose (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston 1st Choice in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston 1st Choice averages 2.9 TCR (132% of the Used car merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston 1st Choice TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston 1st Choice falls in its industry

1,333 Used car merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 132 Used car merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

Houston 1st Choice (51 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston 1st Choice
Houston 1st Choice (51 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Houston 1st Choice has fewer employees than the Used car merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2016 4.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · TX · Houston

1,333 Used car 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 Coast Counties Peterbilt - San Jose 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Truck Group of south Dallas 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanguard Truck Center Holding 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore County Gin 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsmith 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Directional Drilling 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Liquid Measurement, Inc. 51 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 Advanced Disposal - Atlanta South 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kodiak Roofing & Waterproofing (CA) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 347 Brandon, Fl 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 596 Santa Ana, Ca 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Romeoville Distribution Center 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation/Hertford 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webb Concrete & Building Materials, Inc. Pell City 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Wood Solutions II, LLC 51 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, 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.