Employer · Texas

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center

Houston, TX · ~170 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center: 2.8 TCR = 62% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center safety composite

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−3.4

2017→2018

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center injury rate improved

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center's TCR fell 3.4 from 4.5 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.5 · 2018=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #163/297
  • PHOTO Fredericksburg CTS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fredericksburg CTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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TX-Houston-Van Operating Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TX-Houston-Van Operating Center averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 4.5

Where TX-Houston-Van Operating Center falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #163 safest of 297 industry employers in Texas.

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center (170 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TX-Houston-Van Operating Center
TX-Houston-Van Operating Center (170 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

TX-Houston-Van Operating Center has more employees than the industry 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
2018 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2017 4.5 2.8 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · TX · Houston

3,252 industry 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 Fredericksburg CTS 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HENIFF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS LLC - GEISMAR, LA 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport Transport Industries, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armellini California 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Pawnee/Cuero 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMBREE CONSTRUCTION 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ascend Performance MaterialsChocolate Bayou Alvin TX 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oscar Orduno Inc 170 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 Shiloh Pendergrass 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FT010 - Fiber Tech - Richmond 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liebherr Mining and Construction, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vee Pak - Countryside, IL 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erie (Paeri) 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orange (Ctora) 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Park - Yarn 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE OP Hospice 26-0287740 170 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.