Machine shops · Texas

Texas Honing North

Houston, TX · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Texas Honing North runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Texas Honing North: 7.8 TCR = 237% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Texas Honing North safety composite

Texas Honing North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.0

2017→2018

Texas Honing North injury rate improved

Texas Honing North's TCR fell 9.0 from 12.3 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.3 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 237% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #104/108
  • PHOTO DURRE BROS WELDING &…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DURRE BROS WELDING & MACHINE SHOP, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Texas Honing North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Texas Honing North averages 7.8 TCR (237% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Texas Honing North TCR series: 2017=12.3 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Texas Honing North falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 108 Machine shops employers in Texas.

Texas Honing North (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Texas Honing North
Texas Honing North (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Texas Honing North has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 12.3 12.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Houston

1,821 Machine shops 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 DURRE BROS WELDING & MACHINE SHOP, INC. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercury Corporation 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARTH INDUSTRIES CO. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detailed Machining Inc. 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 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 Fallon Center (Nvfal) 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Stores #5189 Schereville, I 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence inn 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100500 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Desert View Home Health 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE S. P. Richards Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Spotting Company of Ohio 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oklahoma City Hospice 25 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: 2018, 2017. 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.