Harbor tugboat services · Texas

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT)

Name: Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Galveston, TX · ~320 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.4
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Harbor tugboat services workplace, earning a grade A.

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT): 1.4 TCR = 31% of Harbor tugboat services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) safety composite

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) held a steady TCR band

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.2 · 2017=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488330 · Galveston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 31% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #3/7
PHOTO New Orleans Marine
BOOK 2y book
INJ 23 inj
SIZE ~320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Orleans Marine (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.4
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1.4
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1.3

What this shows Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) averages 1.4 TCR (31% of the Harbor tugboat services BLS benchmark).

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) falls in its industry

69 Harbor tugboat services establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Harbor tugboat services employers in Texas.

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) (320 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Pelican Island Terminal (PIT) has more employees than the Harbor tugboat services 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
2017	1.5	1.2	10	0	0
2016	1.2	1.2	13	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488330 · TX · Galveston

69 Harbor tugboat services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 76 employers in Galveston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	New Orleans Marine	WAGGAMAN, LA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McAllister Towing of Florida, Inc	JACKSONVILLE, FL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cook Inlet Tug & Barge	ANCHORAGE, AK	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Starlight Marine Services, LLC	SEATTLE, WA	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	TexasBit	IRVING	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lasco Acoustics & Drywall, Inc	CARROLLTON	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Holmes Foods Inc	NIXON	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UCT-Austin	AUSTIN	320 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Galveston Office	Galveston	991 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Schlitterbahn Waterparks - Galveston	Galveston	684 FTE
CITY-NEAR	G&H Towing Company	Galveston	502 FTE
CITY-NEAR	San Luis Hotel	Galveston	446 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rai Mx Phl	Philadelphia, PA	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	NFSL1 - Salt Lake City UT	West Jordan, UT	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	ANJON - Jonesboro- GA	Jonesboro, GA	1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mt. Sterling	Mt. Sterling, OH	1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Roebuck (Alroe)	Birmingham, AL	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Spectrum America 998	Omaha, NE	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zimmer Surgical	Dover, OH	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Michels Fleet- Brownsville	Brownsville, WI	320 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: 2017, 2016. 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.