Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · Texas

Houston HOU 1

Houston, TX · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston HOU 1 runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Houston HOU 1: 3.5 TCR = 77% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston HOU 1 safety composite

Houston HOU 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 HOU 1: 3.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2017

Houston HOU 1's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #198/297
  • PHOTO Morristown Express
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morristown Express (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston HOU 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston HOU 1 averages 3.5 TCR (77% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Houston HOU 1 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Houston HOU 1 falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #198 safest of 297 Motor freight carrier, g employers in Texas.

Houston HOU 1 (171 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston HOU 1
Houston HOU 1 (171 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Houston HOU 1 has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2017 3.9 3.9 9 0 0
2016 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Houston

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) 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 Morristown Express 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pensacola Florida 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JNJ Express, INC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh- Roanoke 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4021-400350100 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6244 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2812 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-657 171 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 Franklin Center (Ncfra) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WRV Office 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orchids Paper Products Pryor Converting 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Walnut 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Drywall Arizona 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dartmouth (Madar) 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex 171 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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