Machine shops · Texas

Universal Plant Services, LLC

Deer Park, TX · ~2,807 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Plant Services, LLC runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Universal Plant Services, LLC: 0.3 TCR = 9% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Plant Services, LLC safety composite

Universal Plant Services, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Universal Plant Services, LLC: 0.2 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Universal Plant Services, LLC's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.2 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Deer Park, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #4/108
  • PHOTO Panama City Beach Re…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~2,807 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Panama City Beach Research & Development Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Plant Services, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Plant Services, LLC averages 0.3 TCR (9% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Plant Services, LLC TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2017=0.4 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Plant Services, LLC falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #4 safest of 108 Machine shops employers in Texas.

Universal Plant Services, LLC (2,807 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Plant Services, LLC
Universal Plant Services, LLC (2,807 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Universal Plant Services, LLC has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower 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
2024 0.6 0.1 7 0 0
2023 0.1 0.0 6 0 0
2022 0.3 0.1 10 0 0
2017 0.4 0.1 10 0 0
2016 0.2 0.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Deer Park

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 174 employers in Deer Park, 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 Panama City Beach Research & Development Facility 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Metal Products Co. Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGill Maintenance Partnership Ltd. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Tool 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital 2,810 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SAT2 2,819 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stronghold, Ltd. 2,821 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Methodist CORPORATE DIVISION 2,793 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Plant Service, Inc. 3,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bilfinger Inc 1,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dashiell/Dacon Corporation 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Dow Chemical Company - Deer Park, TX 1,117 FTE
NAT-TCR Tilden-Coil Constructors, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Automotive Group, LLC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Flournoy Construction Group 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Robinson Refinery 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. George Regional Hospital 2,807 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flatiron 2,806 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital 2,805 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Tool Corporate 2,811 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.