General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Texas

SMT Houston

Houston, TX · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMT Houston runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

SMT Houston: 5.4 TCR = 120% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMT Houston safety composite

SMT Houston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

SMT Houston: 0.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.81× in 2024

SMT Houston's TCR rose 9.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #253/297
  • PHOTO West Atlanta
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMT Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMT Houston averages 5.4 TCR (120% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

SMT Houston TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 4.5

Where SMT Houston falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #253 safest of 297 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

SMT Houston (87 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SMT Houston
SMT Houston (87 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

SMT Houston has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 9.8 9.8 8 0 0
2023 7.6 6.3 6 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Houston

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 West Atlanta 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTS Bowling Green 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marietta Terminal-NON DOT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jet Intermodal, Inc. 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery- Longview,TX 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners - Southeast 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDLAND SVC CTR 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3697 MAPLESHADE LN PLANO TX 87 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 Greendale Catalent 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Randolph 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dowding Industries, Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubois Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gwinnett District Jackson EMC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10784 Sherman Oaks East 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCD, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victory Millwork, L.L.C. 87 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. 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.