Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Texas

Houston Plating Company - South Houston

South Houston, TX · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Plating Company - South Houston runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Houston Plating Company - South Houston: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Plating Company - South Houston safety composite

Houston Plating Company - South Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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 Plating Company - South Houston: 1.1 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Houston Plating Company - South Houston's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.1 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · South Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #10/43
  • PHOTO Oak Mitsui Camden
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Mitsui Camden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Plating Company - South Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Plating Company - South Houston averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Plating Company - South Houston TCR series: 2021=1.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston Plating Company - South Houston falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 43 Electroplating metals and form employers in Texas.

Houston Plating Company - South Houston (117 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Plating Company - South Houston
Houston Plating Company - South Houston (117 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Houston Plating Company - South Houston has more employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · TX · South Houston

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 11 employers in South 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 Oak Mitsui Camden 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRG Global- Ripley 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORAFOL Precision Technology Solutions 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Embee Processing 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Genesis Energy Offshore Pipeline 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grayson-Collin Electric Cooper 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morrow Renewables 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE PICCo -06300241 Dow Gulfstream CRW 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Straight Line Industrial Services Inc. 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHO-ODFL 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Industries LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR FoodTown #005 81 FTE
NAT-TCR Holley Inc. - Baer Brakes 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR VASCOR Ltd 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Covoro Mining Solutions LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bailey Harris Construction Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pine Grove Middle School 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson kayak 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chinook Lumber 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAS Global Corporation 117 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, 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.