Barge building · Texas

Southwest Shipyard Galveston

Name: Southwest Shipyard Galveston Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Galveston, TX · ~87 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Southwest Shipyard Galveston runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Barge building workplace, earning a grade A.

Southwest Shipyard Galveston: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Barge building BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Shipyard Galveston safety composite

Southwest Shipyard Galveston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Southwest Shipyard Galveston: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Southwest Shipyard Galveston's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Galveston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/27
PHOTO VLS Marine Services,…
BOOK 8y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VLS Marine Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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VLS Marine Ser

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Tchoupitoulas

0.5
BOLLINGER AMEL

0.5
Enterprise Mar

0.4

What this shows Southwest Shipyard Galveston averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Barge building BLS benchmark).

Southwest Shipyard Galveston TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwest Shipyard Galveston falls in its industry

454 Barge building establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 27 Barge building employers in Texas.

Southwest Shipyard Galveston (87 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Southwest Shipyard Galveston has fewer employees than the Barge building median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2023	1.3	0.0	1
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	1.4	1.4	2
2018	0.9	0.9	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · TX · Galveston

454 Barge building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 76 employers in Galveston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	VLS Marine Services, LLC	PORT ARTHUR, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tchoupitoulas Street	NEW ORLEANS, LA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BOLLINGER AMELIA REPAIR	AMELIA, LA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Enterprise Marine Services LLC (Houma Shipyard )	HOUMA, LA	0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hatchery- Longview,TX	LONGVIEW	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	USA Compression Partners - Southeast	WEATHERFORD	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MIDLAND SVC CTR	MIDLAND	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3697 MAPLESHADE LN PLANO TX	PLANO	87 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Galveston Office	Galveston	991 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Schlitterbahn Waterparks - Galveston	Galveston	684 FTE
CITY-NEAR	G&H Towing Company	Galveston	502 FTE
CITY-NEAR	San Luis Hotel	Galveston	446 FTE
NAT-TCR	Measurement Solutions-Boulder Flow	Boulder, CO	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Pacific Northwest Rocky Mountain : SVC-Oregon-USA	Portland, OR	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Unit #2524	Wareham, MA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Archer Daniels Midland	Decatur, IL	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Heartland Steel Products	Harrison, OH	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0220 Warehouse	Perry, GA	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rapid Engineering	Comstock Park, MI	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	KING CADILLAC BUICK GMC Inc	Florence, SC	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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.