General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Texas

SMT Lines - HOU

Houston, TX · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMT Lines - HOU runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade F.

SMT Lines - HOU: 10.8 TCR = 240% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMT Lines - HOU safety composite

SMT Lines - HOU scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

SMT Lines - HOU: 10.3 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2019

SMT Lines - HOU's TCR rose 3.3 from 10.3 in 2016 to 13.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 240% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #222/237
  • PHOTO LMD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMD (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMT Lines - HOU in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMT Lines - HOU averages 10.8 TCR (240% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

SMT Lines - HOU TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=13.6 · BLS 4.5

Where SMT Lines - HOU falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #222 safest of 237 General freight trucking, long employers in Texas.

SMT Lines - HOU (66 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SMT Lines - HOU
SMT Lines - HOU (66 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

SMT Lines - HOU has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2019 13.6 10.6 9 0 0
2018 8.5 7.1 6 0 0
2016 10.3 10.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · TX · Houston

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 LMD 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104 ALBANY 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne NJ FXFE-WNJ 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-HL-WS 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stratford Feedyard 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klesel 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE BP&L INDUSTRIES ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Chemical Company 66 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 Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shadowfax HR 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith & Waters 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-976-Williams Sonoma 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pipe Craft, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Construction Company 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quanex Building Products - Luck, WI 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithfield Icon 66 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.

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