Gas well machinery and equipment manufacturing · Texas

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab

Houston, TX · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gas well machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Gas well machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab safety composite

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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 R&D Lab: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333132 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #56/208
  • PHOTO Cameron a Schlumberg…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cameron a Schlumberger Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Gas well machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab falls in its industry

316 Gas well machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 208 Gas well machinery and equipme employers in Texas.

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab (39 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab
National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab (39 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 1.3

National Oilwell Varco R&D Lab has fewer employees than the Gas well machinery and equipment manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 1.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333132 · TX · Houston

316 Gas well machinery and equipment manufacturing 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 Cameron a Schlumberger Company 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Oilwell Varco FM 529 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alegacy Equipment LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HES COE Casing Equipment 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dumas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Wink TX 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAR SOUTH MINING LLC 39 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 Purification Cellutions, LLC. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Fabricators 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrical Contractor 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bose Reservoir 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cumberland Tractor & Equipment 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging UnLimited Boxplant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitchell - 60-01 39 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, 2017, 2016. 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.