Residential for-sale builders · Texas

KB Home - Houston

Houston, TX · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KB Home - Houston runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Residential for-sale builders workplace, earning a grade A.

KB Home - Houston: 1.1 TCR = 28% of Residential for-sale builders BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KB Home - Houston safety composite

KB Home - Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−0.6

2021→2023

KB Home - Houston injury rate improved

KB Home - Houston's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.4 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.4 · 2023=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/63
  • PHOTO Brecksville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brecksville (0.0 TCR gap)

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KB Home - Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KB Home - Houston averages 1.1 TCR (28% of the Residential for-sale builders BLS benchmark).

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

KB Home - Houston TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 3.8

Where KB Home - Houston falls in its industry

341 Residential for-sale builders establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 63 Residential for-sale builders employers in Texas.

KB Home - Houston (141 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KB Home - Houston
KB Home - Houston (141 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

KB Home - Houston has more employees than the Residential for-sale builders median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · TX · Houston

341 Residential for-sale builders 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 Brecksville 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KB Home - Phoenix Division Office 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maronda Homes Inc of Florida Tampa 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lennar Bay Area 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Welsh Plant 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE KB Home - Houston Division Office 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Donnell/Snider Construction, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATS Construction Main 141 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 YUSA Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Datron Advanced Technologies 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North Charleston, SC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cyberpower Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 90004050-Farley Trail Hall JV 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mumford & Miller Concrete, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norgren Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madill Horse Trailer Plant 141 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, 2021. 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.