Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

HOUSTON

Houston, TN · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HOUSTON runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

HOUSTON: 2.8 TCR = 126% of Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HOUSTON safety composite

HOUSTON scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−5.5

2022→2024

HOUSTON injury rate improved

HOUSTON's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Houston, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/21
  • PHOTO DiaMedical USA Equip…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DiaMedical USA Equipment LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HOUSTON in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HOUSTON averages 2.8 TCR (126% of the Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

HOUSTON TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where HOUSTON falls in its industry

754 Dental equipment and supplies establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 21 Dental equipment and supplies employers in Tennessee.

HOUSTON (45 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HOUSTON
HOUSTON (45 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

HOUSTON has fewer employees than the Dental equipment and supplies merchant w median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.5 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · TN · Houston

754 Dental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 DiaMedical USA Equipment LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KMA REMARKETING CORPORATION 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01-01-02/01-05-02 WEST DIV - GOLDEN GATE REGION 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Safety Zone 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEC Headquarters 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power & Lighting, LLC - 230 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Asphalt Paving, LLC 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raven Mechanical, LP 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Arthritis Center of North Georgi-Athens 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jenkins Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Homosassa 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1540 Highlands Ranch 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Fort Wayne 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eclipse Route Operations 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rentex Inc. Bensenville 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Minds LLC DBA Mister Sparky Ben Franklin Plumbing One Hour Air Bradenton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spear - Healthcare 45 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, 2022. 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.