Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services · Texas

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.

Houston, TX · ~330 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 122% of Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. safety composite

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.8 in 2019 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.8 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 0.6 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #13/31
  • PHOTO GA110 Decatur Chemic…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~330 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA110 Decatur Chemical Lab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (122% of the Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 0.5

Where Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. falls in its industry

232 Laboratory testing (except med establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 31 Laboratory testing (except med employers in Texas.

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. (330 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.
Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. (330 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. has more employees than the Laboratory testing (except medical, vete median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2021 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2020 0.6 0.3 1 1 0
2019 0.8 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · TX · Houston

232 Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services 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 GA110 Decatur Chemical Lab 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Afton Chemical Corporation, Research Center 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pfizer Parsippany (2582) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solar Testing Labs 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scandrill Inc. 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE REDDEN CONCRETE INC 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE Network Cabling Services, Inc. 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Dynamics - OTS Garland TX 330 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 Mar Cor Purification - Work from Home 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Health System Office (470-3600) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Revlis - Norton 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McDaniel Technical Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired - ISTHA Call Center 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Cameron LNG 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doosan Fuel Cell America, Inc. 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE SONIFI Solutions, Inc. Sioux Falls Office 330 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.