Industrial gases merchant wholesalers · Texas

North Freeway

Houston, TX · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Freeway runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

North Freeway: 0.4 TCR = 19% of Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Freeway safety composite

North Freeway scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−0.8

2017→2018

North Freeway injury rate improved

North Freeway's TCR fell 0.8 from 0.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.8 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/101
  • PHOTO Baton Rouge - Pecue
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baton Rouge - Pecue (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Freeway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Freeway averages 0.4 TCR (19% of the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

North Freeway TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where North Freeway falls in its industry

766 Industrial gases merchant whol establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 101 Industrial gases merchant whol employers in Texas.

North Freeway (126 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate North Freeway
North Freeway (126 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

North Freeway has more employees than the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · TX · Houston

766 Industrial gases merchant wholesalers 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 Baton Rouge - Pecue 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta-PLT 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami-MD 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polytek - Kalamazoo 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GVEC Gonzales 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trophy Signature Homes LLC 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation - All jobsites less than a year 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvey-Cleary Builders - Austin 126 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 TRW Vehicle Safety Systems-Wash02 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aratana Therapeutics Kansas location 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2.10E+02 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morgan Truck Body LLC - MCA Riverside 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanicville (Vamec) 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Rigid Plastics NA, LLC 126 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. 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.