Machine shops · Texas

Laser Masters Inc.

Houston, TX · ~28 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laser Masters Inc. runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Laser Masters Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laser Masters Inc. safety composite

Laser Masters Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Laser Masters Inc.: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Laser Masters Inc.'s TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #88/108
  • PHOTO Protofab Engineering
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Protofab Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laser Masters Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laser Masters Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Laser Masters Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=11.6 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Laser Masters Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 108 Machine shops employers in Texas.

Laser Masters Inc. (28 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Laser Masters Inc.
Laser Masters Inc. (28 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Laser Masters Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2023 8.5 2.8 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.7 0.0 3 0 0
2020 7.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 11.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Houston

1,821 Machine shops 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 Protofab Engineering 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Location 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Belt Supply Company Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MMI BL 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Fort Worth 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle X Land & Cattle Co., Ltd. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Hi Gin INC 28 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 CKenergy Electric Cooperative 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Stamping, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Station 92 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Lino Lakes 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Operations Central Office/Yard 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE NorthWest Place 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Pleasant Business Office 28 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, 2017. 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.