Refuse hauling, local · Texas

Houston North

Tomball, TX · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston North runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refuse hauling, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston North: 5.0 TCR = 193% of Refuse hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston North safety composite

Houston North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.7

2016→2020

Houston North injury rate improved

Houston North's TCR fell 0.7 from 6.7 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Tomball, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 193% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #84/117
  • PHOTO Waste Connections of…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waste Connections of Mississippi, Inc. - Asco Hauling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston North averages 5.0 TCR (193% of the Refuse hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Houston North TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=6 · BLS 2.6

Where Houston North falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse hauling, local establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 117 Refuse hauling, local employers in Texas.

Houston North (71 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston North
Houston North (71 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Houston North has more employees than the Refuse hauling, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2020 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2019 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2018 5.3 2.1 5 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2016 6.7 5.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · TX · Tomball

2,322 Refuse hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 90 employers in Tomball, 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 Waste Connections of Mississippi, Inc. - Asco Hauling 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShelterClean Signal Hill Route Svcs 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100 - Orlando 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stockbridge 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Andrews 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYSTEM OPERATIONS 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Location 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR TOMBALL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates (TB) 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates (Sun) 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5045 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Bureau of Outdoor Recreation 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Penny Lane Main Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RLC Hillsboro 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nortrax Bangor 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salem Lutheran Homes and Rehabilitation 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prent Corporation- Arizona 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Oklahoma City Airport 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Pain Management & Spine Specialists 71 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: 2020, 2019, 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.