Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Novus Wood Group - Houston

Houston, TX · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Novus Wood Group - Houston runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
4
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Novus Wood Group - Houston's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Novus Wood Group - Houston's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

-202468 201820192020202120222023 02.2 Industry benchmarkNovus Wood Group - Houston TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 423990.

Where Novus Wood Group - Houston falls in its industry

410 Wood products (e.g., chips, po establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 Wood products (e.g., chips, po employers in Texas.

Novus Wood Group - Houston has an average TCR of 2.0, which is 90% of the industry average (2.2) for Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers. This is better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Novus Wood Group - Houston

Between 2018 and 2023, Novus Wood Group - Houston's Total Case Rate improved from 3.1 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 5.8, a spread of 5.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Novus Wood Group - Houston recorded 4 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Novus Wood Group - Houston's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423990 - Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 85,185 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Novus Wood Group - Houston (this establishment) 1.99 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Texas state avg (all industries) 3.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Novus Wood Group - Houston to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Novus Wood Group - Houston's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 90% of the Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers benchmark, Novus Wood Group - Houston reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Novus Wood Group - Houston's safety grade?
Novus Wood Group - Houston has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Novus Wood Group - Houston reported?
Novus Wood Group - Houston has reported 4 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.