Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston Armature Works Inc

Houston, TX · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Armature Works Inc runs at 436% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Armature Works Inc: 9.6 TCR = 436% of Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Armature Works Inc safety composite

Houston Armature Works Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.6

2021→2024

Houston Armature Works Inc injury rate improved

Houston Armature Works Inc's TCR fell 11.6 from 11.6 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.6 · 2022=23.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 436% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #131/133
  • PHOTO #2 Houston Warehousee
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: #2 Houston Warehousee (0.1 TCR gap)

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Houston Armature Works Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Armature Works Inc averages 9.6 TCR (436% of the Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Armature Works Inc TCR series: 2021=11.6 · 2022=23.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Armature Works Inc falls in its industry

1,190 Distribution equipment, electr establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #131 safest of 133 Distribution equipment, electr employers in Texas.

Houston Armature Works Inc (28 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Armature Works Inc
Houston Armature Works Inc (28 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Houston Armature Works Inc has fewer employees than the Distribution equipment, electrical, merc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 0 1 0
2022 23.2 19.9 1 6 0
2021 11.6 11.6 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · TX · Houston

1,190 Distribution equipment, electrical, 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 #2 Houston Warehousee 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bensenville, IL 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Electric Supply Company LLC - San Diego, CA 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CED-Greentech (PC7133) 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Fort Worth 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle X Land & Cattle Co., Ltd. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Hi Gin INC 28 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 Logan Aluminum Inc 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR All In One/Moore Insulation 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynden Door, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Place Anniston 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Welding & Fabrication Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rio Nutrition 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilded Mirrors Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE B77 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.