Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Texas

Laney Directional Drilling Co.

Spring, TX · ~166 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laney Directional Drilling Co. runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade B.

Laney Directional Drilling Co.: 1.4 TCR = 51% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laney Directional Drilling Co. safety composite

Laney Directional Drilling Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Laney Directional Drilling Co.: 1.2 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2018

Laney Directional Drilling Co.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Spring, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #98/114
  • PHOTO 100146 - Farrington …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 100146 - Farrington Guideway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laney Directional Drilling Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laney Directional Drilling Co. averages 1.4 TCR (51% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Laney Directional Drilling Co. TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Laney Directional Drilling Co. falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 114 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Texas.

Laney Directional Drilling Co. (166 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Laney Directional Drilling Co.
Laney Directional Drilling Co. (166 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Laney Directional Drilling Co. has more employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2016 1.2 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · TX · Spring

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 212 employers in Spring, 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 100146 - Farrington Guideway 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crofton Diving Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kokosing Industrial, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connolly-Pacific Co. 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Homes Houston, LLC. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE INDUS ROAD & BRIDGE 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRAC-WORK, INC. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE ND Construction 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exxon Mobil Corporation Houston Campus 5,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP Inc. Houston 2,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Global Services Company Houston Campus 2,050 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Bureau of Shipping 1,159 FTE
NAT-TCR Ryerson- Los Angeles 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carroll House Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DSL_JACKSONVILLE_8001_FL 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cook Inlet Tug & Barge 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE AUBERGE 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tumwater (Watum) 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville Acoustics - Old Fort 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Pana 166 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.