Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance · Texas

Houston TX

Pasadena, TX · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston TX runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston TX: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston TX safety composite

Houston TX scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.0

2016→2020

Houston TX injury rate improved

Houston TX's TCR fell 4.0 from 12.4 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=8.0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Pasadena, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #124/137
  • PHOTO CAR Transport, Inc-C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAR Transport, Inc-Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston TX averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Houston TX TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=8 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Houston TX falls in its industry

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #124 safest of 137 Trucking, specialized freight employers in Texas.

Houston TX (31 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 TX
Houston TX (31 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Houston TX has fewer employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2018 8.0 8.0 3 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2016 12.4 12.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · TX · Pasadena

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 385 employers in Pasadena, 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 CAR Transport, Inc-Corp 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creech Horse Transportation, INC Ocala 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROCK - 110 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silk Road Transport 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TREES USA 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treeland Nursery Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 145 Ranch LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Tulia 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSC Group 4,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroleum Service Corporation 3,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR JVIC 3,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Houston 2,015 FTE
NAT-TCR Majestic Bluffs 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Home Care Marshalltown Branch 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fred Emich Co, Inc., DBA Emich Chevrolet 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Kinetic Co., Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Calvert City KY 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tacoma 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molex LLC 31 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.