Metal pipe merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston DC

Houston, TX · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston DC runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Metal pipe merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Houston DC: 0.6 TCR = 28% of Metal pipe merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston DC safety composite

Houston DC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Houston DC: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2024

Houston DC's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #6/119
  • PHOTO Steel Alloys & Servi…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Alloys & Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston DC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston DC averages 0.6 TCR (28% of the Metal pipe merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston DC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston DC falls in its industry

1,299 Metal pipe merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 119 Metal pipe merchant wholesaler employers in Texas.

Houston DC (38 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 DC
Houston DC (38 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Houston DC has fewer employees than the Metal pipe merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Houston

1,299 Metal pipe 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 Steel Alloys & Services 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA Mobile AL 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA, Randleman 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bovina Cattle Company 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT BREEDER AND BROILER 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Agricultural- Danevang 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2362/3714-Lubbock, TX-R&D (Monsanto Co.) 38 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 Reinhausen Manufacturing Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Catch of The Day FMVP 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Stone Center 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Region 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Mead Store 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tropicana Store 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Steel Products Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Island Office 38 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, 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.