Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Texas

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 207% of Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. safety composite

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 4.7 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.7 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 207% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #115/130
  • PHOTO OEC Petroleum Systems
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OEC Petroleum Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (207% of the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. TCR series: 2023=4.7 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. falls in its industry

911 Industrial Machinery and Equip establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #115 safest of 130 Industrial Machinery and Equip employers in Texas.

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.
Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc. has fewer employees than the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · TX · Houston

911 Industrial Machinery and Equipment 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 OEC Petroleum Systems 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&W Equipment Charleston 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Productivity - IA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chappell Tractor Sales, Inc 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matador Ranch 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Land & Livestock, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond B Feedyard, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luckey Custom Feedlot, Inc. 22 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 FC: Atlanta 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Branson Chateau on the Lake 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Blach Distributing Co. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AeroCision 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABB Inc Evansville Service Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emerald Glass, Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE EnerStar Electric Cooperative 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE T.F. Powers Construction, Co. 22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.