Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) · Texas

United Houston HQ

Houston, TX · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Houston HQ runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) workplace, earning a grade B.

United Houston HQ: 2.4 TCR = 52% of Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Houston HQ safety composite

United Houston HQ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

United Houston HQ: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

United Houston HQ's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 52% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Motor Body Company, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Motor Body Company, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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United Houston HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Houston HQ averages 2.4 TCR (52% of the Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS benchmark).

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

United Houston HQ TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=0 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=5 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where United Houston HQ falls in its industry

157 Emergency road services (i.e., establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Emergency road services (i.e., employers in Texas.

United Houston HQ (36 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate United Houston HQ
United Houston HQ (36 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

United Houston HQ has fewer employees than the Emergency road services (i.e., tow servi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · TX · Houston

157 Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) 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 Motor Body Company, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shaner Enterprises, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HB Towing Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike's Towing Service Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FRONTIER FEED YARD 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paco Feedyard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coyote Lake Feedyard Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Waelder 36 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 Metals USA #508 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pewaukee Central Stores 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forged Metals Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Barker Motor Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minalex Corporation 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.B. Starr, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hi-Grade Materials-Hesperia Agg& Ready Mix 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Higashi Farms, Inc 36 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, 2021, 2019, 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.