Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Texas

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex

Houston, TX · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex: 2.9 TCR = 132% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex safety composite

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex held a steady TCR band

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #45/61
  • PHOTO GA100
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex averages 2.9 TCR (132% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 61 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Texas.

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex
SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.7 7.8 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · TX · Houston

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) 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 GA100 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDBA5 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN200 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9745-VALLEN DISTRIBUTION INC-000921_US_C0656 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TLM - Tree Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heifer Ranch @ Arroyo Seco 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dean Cluck Feedyard, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE CanTex Feeders LP 27 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 Hobart Service, Indianapolis 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kent, WA Office CS 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Communications Inc. Paramount 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coburn1 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Air To Ground Serivces, Inc.-Indy 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambassador Steel-St Louis Missouri 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Neon Signs Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Avenue NSD 27 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, 2018. 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.