Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90

Houston, TX · ~148 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90: 1.0 TCR = 44% of Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 safety composite

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2021→2024

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 injury rate improved

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.4 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #7/132
  • PHOTO Billings Peterbilt, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Billings Peterbilt, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 averages 1.0 TCR (44% of the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 falls in its industry

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 132 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa employers in Texas.

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 (148 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vanguard Houston Hwy 90
Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 (148 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vanguard Houston Hwy 90 has more employees than the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · TX · Houston

1,333 Trucks, road, 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 Billings Peterbilt, Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prevost - Fort Worth, TX 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Auto Sales, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt of Michigan, Inc. - Clare 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal- Maine Foods Red River 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE GNB Global Inc 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dallas Underground, LLC 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5 Star Civil Construction 148 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 MK Pipelines, inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth USPS Martinsburg 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77BPC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #262 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hollingsworth Cypress 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oneida Healthcare (Extended Care Facility) 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle Professional 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandvik, Inc. Romeoville 148 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, 2021. 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.