Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Texas
Texas Sterling Construction
Houston, TX · ~521 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 0.8
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Texas Sterling Construction runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade A.
Texas Sterling Construction: 0.8 TCR = 30% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Texas Sterling Construction safety composite
Texas Sterling Construction scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).
68/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- B 0.85 per 100 workers
Safer than 86% of industry peers
- DART rate
- C 0.38 per 100 workers
Safer than 59% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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
−0.4
2016→2024
Texas Sterling Construction injury rate improved
Texas Sterling Construction's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2016=0.8 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.4
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 237310 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 30% of ind
- DART 0.4 DART
- RANK #49/286
- PHOTO Southcoast
- BOOK 7y book
- INJ 36 inj
- SIZE ~521 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Southcoast (0.0 TCR gap)
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Texas Sterling Construction in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Texas Sterling Construction
0.8 TCR
- Southcoast
Southcoast
0.8 TCR
- California Dep
California Department of Transportation Facility 417
0.8 TCR
- Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty - Military Cut off Project
0.8 TCR
- PCL Civil Cons
PCL Civil Constructors, Inc.
0.8 TCR
What this shows Texas Sterling Construction averages 0.8 TCR (30% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).
Texas Sterling Construction TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.8
Where Texas Sterling Construction falls in its industry
4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishmentsSafer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 286 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Texas.
Texas Sterling Construction has more employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
237310 · TX · Houston
4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction 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 | Southcoast | 0.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | California Department of Transportation Facility 417 | 0.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Balfour Beatty - Military Cut off Project | 0.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | PCL Civil Constructors, Inc. | 0.8 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Newfield Woodlands Office | 521 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | FIFTH GENERATION, INC. | 521 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | KTC - TxHO | 521 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Best Outcomes Home Health LLC | 521 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 | Blue Cube - Roberta Operations | 0.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Clarence Davids & Co. | 0.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Industrial Accessories Company | 0.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Orangeburg Redi-Mix Concrete, Inc. | 0.8 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Carlsbad | 521 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | PMC Muncie IN Locomotive | 521 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 2390 - Apple Valley South | 521 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | VEKA Inc. | 521 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.