Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Houston Distribution Center

Houston, PA · ~355 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Distribution Center runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Distribution Center: 7.0 TCR = 319% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Distribution Center safety composite

Houston Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
D 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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 Distribution Center: 6.7 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Houston Distribution Center's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.7 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Houston, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 319% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #33/68
  • PHOTO C037 Portsmouth
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~355 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C037 Portsmouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Distribution Center averages 7.0 TCR (319% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Distribution Center TCR series: 2022=6.7 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Distribution Center falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 68 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Pennsylvania.

Houston Distribution Center (355 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Distribution Center
Houston Distribution Center (355 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Houston Distribution Center has more employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 7.8 6.7 28 0 0
2023 6.6 5.8 24 0 0
2022 6.7 5.6 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · PA · Houston

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 15 employers in Houston, PA · 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 C037 Portsmouth 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR C416 Ridgeland 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA - Harrisburg - 1530 A Bobali Dr - The American Bottling Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewis Brothers Bakeries Inc of TN 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheatland Tube 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Dane LLC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3228 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2480 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations) 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pennsylvainia Office 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Transportation Company (Line Haul Vessel Operations) 263 FTE
NAT-TCR Arbor Holding - Arbor Terrace of Prince William Commons 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CBJ Arena Management 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Estates of Kenesaw 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Green Oaks 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TCW inc 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sumitomo Machinery Corp of America Chesapeake 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Residential Services of Michigan 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE Telephonics 815 Farmingdale 355 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.