Pallet Wood Plant · Texas

Houston,TX - 426

Houston, TX · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston,TX - 426 runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston,TX - 426: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston,TX - 426 safety composite

Houston,TX - 426 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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,TX - 426: 2.5 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Houston,TX - 426's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.5 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #29/69
  • PHOTO K & S Pallets Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K & S Pallets Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston,TX - 426 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston,TX - 426 averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Houston,TX - 426 TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston,TX - 426 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 69 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Texas.

Houston,TX - 426 (75 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston,TX - 426
Houston,TX - 426 (75 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Houston,TX - 426 has more employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2023 7.2 5.4 4 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · TX · Houston

952 Pallet Wood Plant 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 K & S Pallets Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deufol Charlotte 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Pallets Baltimore 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Corrugated Cerritos 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crownover Farms dba Lone Star Family Farms 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village farms Marfa 1 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rice, TX 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE CACTUS OPERATING 75 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 Weller Auto Parts Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mississippi Valley Orchard Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Koochiching County 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moon Valley Country Club 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pyles Plumbing & Utility Contractors, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaskaskia Engineering Group, LLC. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Companies INC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLASTONBURY 75 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.