Vocational Rehabilitation Services · Texas

North First

Abilene, TX · ~14 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North First runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vocational Rehabilitation Services workplace, earning a grade F.

North First: 12.9 TCR = 341% of Vocational Rehabilitation Services BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North First safety composite

North First scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 12.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2020→2024

North First injury rate improved

North First's TCR fell 5.8 from 10.5 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 41.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.5 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=41.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Abilene, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 341% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #37/39
  • PHOTO Riverside Industries
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Riverside Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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North First in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North First averages 12.9 TCR (341% of the Vocational Rehabilitation Services BLS benchmark).

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

North First TCR series: 2020=10.5 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=41.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.8

Where North First falls in its industry

1,455 Vocational Rehabilitation Serv establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 39 Vocational Rehabilitation Serv employers in Texas.

North First (14 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate North First
North First (14 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

North First has fewer employees than the Vocational Rehabilitation Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 41.6 24.9 3 2 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 1 0 0
2020 10.5 10.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · TX · Abilene

1,455 Vocational Rehabilitation Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 238 employers in Abilene, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Riverside Industries 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawthorne Centre 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arc Industries 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unyeway Inc. - Lakeside 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maple Coop Gin- Muleshoe 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stamford Coop 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Gin 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRUE COOPERATIVE GIN 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abilene CCD 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Palmetto Exterminators - Charleston Branch 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Tile- Seattle 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nijiya Market - MV 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyfos - Foster Ave 12.9 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.