General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston Sales & DSD Facility

Houston, TX · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Sales & DSD Facility runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Houston Sales & DSD Facility: 1.2 TCR = 56% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Sales & DSD Facility safety composite

Houston Sales & DSD Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−0.6

2016→2017

Houston Sales & DSD Facility injury rate improved

Houston Sales & DSD Facility's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #14/123
  • PHOTO Transportation : Bal…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation : Baldwin - Trans (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Sales & DSD Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Sales & DSD Facility averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Sales & DSD Facility TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Sales & DSD Facility falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 123 General-line groceries merchan employers in Texas.

Houston Sales & DSD Facility (153 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Sales & DSD Facility
Houston Sales & DSD Facility (153 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Houston Sales & DSD Facility has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2017 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · TX · Houston

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers 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 Transportation : Baldwin - Trans 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GlacierPoint Paterson 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 419 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raleigh NC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pharr Service Center 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercedes Office 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Houston 153 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 49- Mt Vernon 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Cooling Services 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Watson Refrigeration, Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR American Spotting Company of Ohio 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic Services: Charleston Hauling 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernard Horwich Building 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPP Columbia 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Pines Center (Ncsou) 153 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.