Marine cargo handling services · Texas

Houston Material Handling

Houston, TX · ~411 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Material Handling runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade A.

Houston Material Handling: 1.8 TCR = 40% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Material Handling safety composite

Houston Material Handling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2022→2024

Houston Material Handling injury rate improved

Houston Material Handling's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.6 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.6 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #20/52
  • PHOTO Premier Bulk Stevedo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~411 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premier Bulk Stevedoring (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Material Handling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Material Handling averages 1.8 TCR (40% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Material Handling TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Houston Material Handling falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 52 Marine cargo handling services employers in Texas.

Houston Material Handling (411 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Material Handling
Houston Material Handling (411 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Houston Material Handling has more employees than the Marine cargo handling services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 0.3 4 0 0
2023 1.5 0.2 7 0 0
2022 2.6 1.6 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · TX · Houston

391 Marine cargo handling services 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 Premier Bulk Stevedoring 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logistec Everglades LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WTPS - Houston Material Handling 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Port Manatee 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ExxonMobil Chemical Plant 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Antonio TX 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE USM Store #679 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Ambra Construction Corporate Office 410 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 Rivers Edge Environmental Services,INC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Starkville 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OK057 Fletcher Gypsum 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE OH_Columbus_1600 Dublin Rd_TWMH6DBL 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkel US Operations Corporation 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potomac Edison 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE CF Hatfield 411 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.

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

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