Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers · Texas

Southern Floral Company- Houston

Houston, TX · ~92 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Floral Company- Houston runs at 410% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Floral Company- Houston: 9.0 TCR = 410% of Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Floral Company- Houston safety composite

Southern Floral Company- Houston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Southern Floral Company- Houston: 7.2 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Southern Floral Company- Houston's TCR rose 3.7 from 7.2 in 2023 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 410% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Select Trees Enterpr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select Trees Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Floral Company- Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Floral Company- Houston averages 9.0 TCR (410% of the Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Floral Company- Houston TCR series: 2023=7.2 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Floral Company- Houston falls in its industry

185 Artificial flowers merchant wh establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 28 Artificial flowers merchant wh employers in Texas.

Southern Floral Company- Houston (92 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Floral Company- Houston
Southern Floral Company- Houston (92 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Southern Floral Company- Houston has more employees than the Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 10.9 9.7 9 0 0
2023 7.2 4.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · TX · Houston

185 Artificial flowers merchant wholesalers 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 Select Trees Enterprises, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardens Alive Farms - Michigan 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenleaf Nursery Co. 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pecos 341 CR 402, Pecos, TX 79772 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Spread Center 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Worth Transmission 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Maintenance 92 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 Careone at Somerset Valley Alf 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Walworth County Care Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metalor Technologies 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR College Park 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Anaheim Memorial Med Ctr Hsk 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southpointe Healthcare and Rehab 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opera House Operator 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franco Associates 92 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. 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.