Hydrostatic testing laboratories or services · Texas

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D

Houston, TX · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hydrostatic testing laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade D.

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D: 0.9 TCR = 178% of Hydrostatic testing laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D safety composite

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 0.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #17/31
  • PHOTO WuXi Advanced Therap…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WuXi Advanced Therapies (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D averages 0.9 TCR (178% of the Hydrostatic testing laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D TCR series: 2019=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 0.5

Where National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D falls in its industry

232 Hydrostatic testing laboratori establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

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 31 Hydrostatic testing laboratori employers in Texas.

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D (42 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D
National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D (42 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

National Oilwell Varco - Houston Rig Pressure Control - R&D has fewer employees than the Hydrostatic testing laboratories or serv median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · TX · Houston

232 Hydrostatic testing laboratories or services 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 WuXi Advanced Therapies 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix TEQ - Rockport, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Biomedical Research 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hibbing - BIC 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 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 Maricopa County - Planning and Development (440) 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MMT Technology, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Deacon Construction, LLC - WA 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Swagelok CRM 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE WVUH Center for Hope and Healing 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concrete Curb LLC dba Concrete Curb & Paving Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cancer Treatment Center-MHN-IA 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benson 42 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.