Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Texas

TX Houston

Houston, TX · ~4,667 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX Houston runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

TX Houston: 1.4 TCR = 66% of Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX Houston safety composite

TX Houston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

TX Houston: 0.4 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

TX Houston's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.4 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #57/130
  • PHOTO Brax Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~4,667 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brax Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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TX Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX Houston averages 1.4 TCR (66% of the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

TX Houston TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where TX Houston falls in its industry

911 Industrial Machinery and Equip establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #57 safest of 130 Industrial Machinery and Equip employers in Texas.

TX Houston (4,667 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate TX Houston
TX Houston (4,667 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

TX Houston has more employees than the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merch median and a lower 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
2024 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.4 0.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · TX · Houston

911 Industrial Machinery and Equipment 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 Brax Company 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammer & Steel, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryan Herco Flow Solutions / Engineered Machinery Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laguna Tools, dba DAKE Corporation 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE TX McAllen 4,667 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX Arlington 4,667 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX Arlington Warehouse 4,667 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX-San Antonio 4,667 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 NA2 Golden Gate Service Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Founders Brewing Co. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario - 5351 East Jurupa Street 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkay Plumbing Products Company - Freeport 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA Fresno 4,667 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ATL2 4,670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Francis Hospital 4,674 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation 4,657 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.