Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing · Texas

Powell Industries

Houston, TX · ~1,024 workers · 3 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 runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Powell Industries: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell Industries safety composite

Powell Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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 held a steady TCR band

Powell Industries's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/20
  • PHOTO Circuit Breaker Sale…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~1,024 FTE

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

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Powell Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell Industries averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Powell Industries TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Powell Industries falls in its industry

226 Circuit breakers, power, manuf establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #4 safest of 20 Circuit breakers, power, manuf employers in Texas.

Powell Industries (1,024 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Powell Industries
Powell Industries (1,024 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 has more employees than the Circuit breakers, power, manufacturing 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
2019 0.3 0.0 4 0 0
2018 0.5 0.3 5 0 0
2016 0.6 0.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335313 · TX · Houston

226 Circuit breakers, power, 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 Electrical Systems Offshore 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell Industries - Airport 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hitachi T&D Solutions, Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6016 1,025 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cypress Semiconductor 1,026 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6016 1,026 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX0330CSS 1,026 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 Sioux Jerseys, LLP 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Columbia Gas 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-FLPEN48 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holian Asbestos Removal 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nevada Restaurant Services Inc. dba Dotty's 1,024 FTE
NAT-SIZE DRS Network and Imaging Systems 1,024 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Pine Bluff 1,024 FTE
NAT-SIZE Therma LLC 1,024 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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