Employer · Texas

Houston Space Center

Houston, TX · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Space Center runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston Space Center: 5.2 TCR = 174% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Space Center safety composite

Houston Space Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−8.4

2022→2024

Houston Space Center injury rate improved

Houston Space Center's TCR fell 8.4 from 10.2 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 174% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #405/570
  • PHOTO PHYSICIANS REGIONAL …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PHYSICIANS REGIONAL COLLIER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Space Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Space Center averages 5.2 TCR (174% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Space Center TCR series: 2022=10.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.0

Where Houston Space Center falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #405 safest of 570 industry employers in Texas.

Houston Space Center (55 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Space Center
Houston Space Center (55 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Houston Space Center has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2022 10.2 5.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TX · Houston

6,952 industry 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 PHYSICIANS REGIONAL COLLIER 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LVA CLUB 1 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT HCA LEWIS GALE ALLEGHANY FOOD 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000019398 LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHAMPION FEEDERS 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA GERTRUDIS 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWISHER COUNTY CATTLE COMPANY 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harwood Complex 55 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 Sonesta ES Suites Baton Rouge 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2731 Madison Heights 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2205 W Wichita 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Moly Manufacturing, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CK DIST-Lenexa 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hospital Patient Obse 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Singer River Hosp 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youth Outreach Ministries 55 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.