Acoustical engineering consulting services · Texas

HVJ Associates, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~96 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HVJ Associates, Inc. runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acoustical engineering consulting services workplace, earning a grade F.

HVJ Associates, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 276% of Acoustical engineering consulting services BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HVJ Associates, Inc. safety composite

HVJ Associates, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.5

2020→2023

HVJ Associates, Inc. injury rate improved

HVJ Associates, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.5 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.4 · 276% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #43/62
  • PHOTO B07
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B07 (0.0 TCR gap)

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HVJ Associates, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HVJ Associates, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (276% of the Acoustical engineering consulting services BLS benchmark).

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

HVJ Associates, Inc. TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 0.5

Where HVJ Associates, Inc. falls in its industry

690 Acoustical engineering consult establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 62 Acoustical engineering consult employers in Texas.

HVJ Associates, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HVJ Associates, Inc.
HVJ Associates, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

HVJ Associates, Inc. has fewer employees than the Acoustical engineering consulting servic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 4.5 1.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · TX · Houston

690 Acoustical engineering consulting services 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 B07 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RMA Group - Concord 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPS Group INC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3110 N I35 ROUND ROCK TX 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECO Central Plant 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oates Industries, Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen - 1800 Hughes Landing Blvd 96 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 Hr2 - Human Resources 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KC - Kipling & Coal Mine 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR International C & C Corp DBA Sign X-Press and International Sign 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Isd #2 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pensacola / Tallahassee 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Experitec Inc. Chesterfield 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bountiful Farms Nursery 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vero Beach Museum of Art 96 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.