Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing · Texas

National Oilwell Varco

Conroe, TX · ~365 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Oilwell Varco runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

National Oilwell Varco: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Oilwell Varco safety composite

National Oilwell Varco scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

National Oilwell Varco held a steady TCR band

National Oilwell Varco's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.9 in 2019 to 0.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.9 · 2020=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333132 · Conroe, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #80/208
  • PHOTO Rubber Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rubber Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Oilwell Varco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Oilwell Varco averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Oilwell Varco TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where National Oilwell Varco falls in its industry

316 Drilling equipment, oil and ga establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #80 safest of 208 Drilling equipment, oil and ga employers in Texas.

National Oilwell Varco (365 employees, TCR 0.8) 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
National Oilwell Varco (365 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 1.3

National Oilwell Varco has more employees than the Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-ty 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
2020 0.7 0.7 2 0 0
2019 0.9 0.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333132 · TX · Conroe

316 Drilling equipment, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 271 employers in Conroe, 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 Rubber Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovex Downhole Solutions World Houston 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HES Duncan, OK (Manufacturing) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Championx / Harbison-Fischer 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Rosharon Fab Shop 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE CTI Foods, LLC. Soups 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE Celanese LTD, Clear Lake 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&M Manufacturing Mark IV 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Houston Conroe 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medivators - TX 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Eye Associates - CNR 616 FTE
NAT-TCR Ir Contractors 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowerman Trucking Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AK Steel - Dearborn Works 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Adient US LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Navicent Health Baldwin 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cameron, a Schlumberger company 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rice Street Service Center 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN - Cummins (5800) 365 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: 2020, 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.