Switchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing · Texas

Powell Industries - Airport

Houston, TX · ~390 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Powell Industries - Airport runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Switchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Powell Industries - Airport: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Switchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell Industries - Airport safety composite

Powell Industries - Airport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Powell Industries - Airport held a steady TCR band

Powell Industries - Airport's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.5 in 2019 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.5 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335313 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO Circuit Breaker Sale…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~390 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Circuit Breaker Sales, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Powell Industries - Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell Industries - Airport averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Switchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Powell Industries - Airport TCR series: 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Powell Industries - Airport falls in its industry

226 Switchgear and switchgear acce establishments

Safer than 94% 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 #2 safest of 20 Switchgear and switchgear acce employers in Texas.

Powell Industries - Airport (390 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Powell Industries - Airport
Powell Industries - Airport (390 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Powell Industries - Airport has more employees than the Switchgear and switchgear accessories ma 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
2024 0.5 0.2 3 0 0
2023 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.2 4 0 0
2021 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335313 · TX · Houston

226 Switchgear and switchgear accessories manufacturing 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 Circuit Breaker Sales, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell Industries 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell Electrical Systems Offshore 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi T&D Solutions, Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE M-I SWACO Headquarters 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5764 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4299 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE 467 390 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 W.H. Mechanical Contracting, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products - Burbank 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Regeneron - Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NC Seattle 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Synthetic Turf Resources 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Custom Formulations, LLC 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Charter Oak 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE River City Va 390 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.