Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive, nondiesel truck) manufacturing · Texas

ReCon Houston Plant

Houston, TX · ~52 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ReCon Houston Plant runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive, nondiesel truck) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ReCon Houston Plant: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive, nondiesel truck) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ReCon Houston Plant safety composite

ReCon Houston Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.4

2016→2020

ReCon Houston Plant injury rate improved

ReCon Houston Plant's TCR fell 6.4 from 9.2 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333618 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Branch #8 Springfield
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch #8 Springfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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ReCon Houston Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ReCon Houston Plant averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive, nondiesel truck) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ReCon Houston Plant TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where ReCon Houston Plant falls in its industry

133 Internal combustion engines (e establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 4 Internal combustion engines (e employers in Texas.

ReCon Houston Plant (52 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ReCon Houston Plant
ReCon Houston Plant (52 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9

ReCon Houston Plant has fewer employees than the Internal combustion engines (except airc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2016 9.2 9.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333618 · TX · Houston

133 Internal combustion engines (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive, nondiesel truck) 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 Branch #8 Springfield 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch #20 Riverside 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Solutions International 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indmar Products 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE KR SGHS 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cactus Feeders 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hale Center Feedyard 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Idalou Egg Ranch LP 52 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 ConGlobal Industries, Inc. Joliet 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bird Incorporated dba CertainTeed Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Brunswick at Attleboro 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Reefer Systems INC dba Midlands Carrier Transicold 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canton ORR Protection 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Rapids Hospice 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE North East Specialty Corp. 52 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.