Drywall contractors · Texas

Karsten Interior Services

Houston, TX · ~403 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karsten Interior Services runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Karsten Interior Services: 0.6 TCR = 20% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karsten Interior Services safety composite

Karsten Interior Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Karsten Interior Services held a steady TCR band

Karsten Interior Services's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/144
  • PHOTO ODI NC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~403 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ODI NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karsten Interior Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karsten Interior Services averages 0.6 TCR (20% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Karsten Interior Services TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Karsten Interior Services falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 144 Drywall contractors employers in Texas.

Karsten Interior Services (403 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Karsten Interior Services
Karsten Interior Services (403 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Karsten Interior Services has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2022 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.0 0.8 5 0 0
2019 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2018 1.1 0.2 5 0 0
2016 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · TX · Houston

1,613 Drywall contractors 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 ODI NC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Interior Contractors 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 229 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delmarva Spray Foam 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE VoltaGrid 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6795-86130B0199 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX-HOUST01-Houston - TX - Warehouse 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE USM Store #502 403 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 General Transport Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Brien Construction Company, inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric Power Systems International 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Krebs Land Development 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franciscan Physician Network Michigan City 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambitions California Inc 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snap On Tools 403 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.