Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing · Texas

Valco Instruments Company Inc

Houston, TX · ~325 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valco Instruments Company Inc runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Valco Instruments Company Inc: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valco Instruments Company Inc safety composite

Valco Instruments Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Valco Instruments Company Inc held a steady TCR band

Valco Instruments Company Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334516 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Analytical Sensors &…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Analytical Sensors & Instruments, LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valco Instruments Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valco Instruments Company Inc averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valco Instruments Company Inc TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Valco Instruments Company Inc falls in its industry

213 Chromatographic instruments, l establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Chromatographic instruments, l employers in Texas.

Valco Instruments Company Inc (325 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Valco Instruments Company Inc
Valco Instruments Company Inc (325 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Valco Instruments Company Inc has more employees than the Chromatographic instruments, laboratory- median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 1.2 0.0 4 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 7 0 0
2022 1.2 0.3 4 0 0
2021 1.8 0.9 6 0 0
2020 2.6 0.9 9 0 0
2019 2.9 0.3 9 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334516 · TX · Houston

213 Chromatographic instruments, laboratory-type, manufacturing 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 Analytical Sensors & Instruments, LTD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mettler Toledo Rainin, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teledyne PI - Acton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. NCA 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Corporate 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - DALLAS TX 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinds - Fort Worth TX 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handgards Hawkins 325 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 Creative Plastic Concepts 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wicked Weed Brewing - Funk House 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saracen Casino Resort 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR santa fe machine works inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Banner Seventeen, LLC 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weiler Corporation 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Post Acute Registry 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bergen Logistics--NJ5903 North Bergen, NJ 325 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, 2020, 2019, 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.