Conduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel · Texas

Houston Elbow

Houston, TX · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Elbow runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Conduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade A.

Houston Elbow: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Conduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Elbow safety composite

Houston Elbow scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−5.8

2021→2024

Houston Elbow injury rate improved

Houston Elbow's TCR fell 5.8 from 5.8 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/46
  • PHOTO Vallourec Tube Alloy…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vallourec Tube Alloy Richey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Elbow in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Elbow averages 1.5 TCR (44% of the Conduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Elbow TCR series: 2021=5.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston Elbow falls in its industry

329 Conduit, welded and lock joint establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #12 safest of 46 Conduit, welded and lock joint employers in Texas.

Houston Elbow (18 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Elbow
Houston Elbow (18 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Houston Elbow has fewer employees than the Conduit, welded and lock joint, made fro 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · TX · Houston

329 Conduit, welded and lock joint, made from purchased iron or steel 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Vallourec Tube Alloy Richey 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tenaris Baytown 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa-Tube NTT 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forum Energy Technologies - Dayton 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Jose Cattle Co 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petersburg Cooperative Gin 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Of Texas Gin 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caprock Gin Inc 18 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 Western States Fire Protection 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Museum of American Art 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Casper Colosimo & Son, Inc. 1.5 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.