Tugboat services, harbor operation · Texas

Kirby Offshore Marine-East

Houston, TX · ~424 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirby Offshore Marine-East runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tugboat services, harbor operation workplace, earning a grade A.

Kirby Offshore Marine-East: 2.2 TCR = 48% of Tugboat services, harbor operation BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirby Offshore Marine-East safety composite

Kirby Offshore Marine-East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kirby Offshore Marine-East: 0.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.46× in 2021

Kirby Offshore Marine-East's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.9 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488330 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 48% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Foss Maritime Compan…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~424 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foss Maritime Company LLC - PNW (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kirby Offshore Marine-East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirby Offshore Marine-East averages 2.2 TCR (48% of the Tugboat services, harbor operation BLS benchmark).

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

Kirby Offshore Marine-East TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=2 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Kirby Offshore Marine-East falls in its industry

69 Tugboat services, harbor opera establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Tugboat services, harbor opera employers in Texas.

Kirby Offshore Marine-East (424 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirby Offshore Marine-East
Kirby Offshore Marine-East (424 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kirby Offshore Marine-East has more employees than the Tugboat services, harbor operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2021 5.5 5.4 15 34 0
2020 1.1 1.1 4 1 0
2019 2.0 1.8 10 0 0
2018 1.5 1.0 13 2 0
2017 0.9 0.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488330 · TX · Houston

69 Tugboat services, harbor operation 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 Foss Maritime Company LLC - PNW 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LEO MARINE SERVICES LOS ANGELES 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAllister Towing of Narragansett Bay, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foss Maritime Company LLC - NorCal 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 163 424 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : FTW3 424 FTE
STATE-SIZE Girling Community Care - Beaumont 424 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mustang Extreme Environmental Services, LLC 425 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 119 - Archer Western de Moya JV III 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR All Service Plastic Molding, Inc. Beavercreek 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 461 - Tacoma 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Magnet School 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courage Center 424 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATL - Flight Ops 424 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfax County Water Authority 424 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havco Wood Products, Vonore 424 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.