Home centers, building materials · Pennsylvania

Houston Starr Company

Pittsburgh, PA · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Houston Starr Company runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston Starr Company: 4.3 TCR = 127% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Starr Company safety composite

Houston Starr Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Houston Starr Company: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2023

Houston Starr Company's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #96/276
  • PHOTO Allenton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allenton (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Pennsylvania employers → · Look up another →

Houston Starr Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Starr Company averages 4.3 TCR (127% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Starr Company TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=10 · 2021=2.4 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Houston Starr Company falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #96 safest of 276 Home centers, building materia employers in Pennsylvania.

Houston Starr Company (43 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Starr Company
Houston Starr Company (43 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Houston Starr Company has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 10.0 0.0 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · PA · Pittsburgh

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 Allenton 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ed Herrington - Hudson 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1055 NEWHALL 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1086 S FRESNO 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Fresh Egg Products (FFEP) 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panda Hummel Station, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE 435-NiSource-New Castle PA 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builders Inc 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100427 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Steel Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR M2 SeaTac Tenant LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FWT-ODFL 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Choice Transport, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paff Landscape Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nettles Sausage, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maven Solutions LLC 43 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.