Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis · Texas

Sidewinder Drilling

Houston, TX · ~344 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sidewinder Drilling runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade A.

Sidewinder Drilling: 0.6 TCR = 32% of Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sidewinder Drilling safety composite

Sidewinder Drilling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Sidewinder Drilling held a steady TCR band

Sidewinder Drilling's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #9/48
  • PHOTO Lubbock Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubbock Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sidewinder Drilling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sidewinder Drilling averages 0.6 TCR (32% of the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

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

Sidewinder Drilling TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=0.6 · BLS 1.9

Where Sidewinder Drilling falls in its industry

171 Drilling gas and oil field wel establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 48 Drilling gas and oil field wel employers in Texas.

Sidewinder Drilling (344 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Sidewinder Drilling
Sidewinder Drilling (344 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Sidewinder Drilling has more employees than the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 0.6 0.2 3 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · TX · Houston

171 Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis 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 Lubbock Office 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ensign United States Drilling (California) Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rig 1 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0233 - HES Broussard 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vernor Material & Equipment Co. 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tetra Pak Inc. 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEODynamics 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 404 344 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 Ingalls Memorial Hospital 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FSC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Us Inside Sales - Greenville (Scecd) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Component Services & Logistics 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood (Njlak) 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwalk (Ctnlk) 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Splitrock Resort 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace industries, Harrison Division 344 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.