Steel merchant wholesalers · Texas

vHPM - Houston

Houston, TX · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

vHPM - Houston runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

vHPM - Houston: 1.4 TCR = 64% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

vHPM - Houston safety composite

vHPM - Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

vHPM - Houston: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

vHPM - Houston's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/119
  • PHOTO Friedman Sinton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Friedman Sinton (0.0 TCR gap)

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vHPM - Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows vHPM - Houston averages 1.4 TCR (64% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

vHPM - Houston TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where vHPM - Houston falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 119 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

vHPM - Houston (36 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate vHPM - Houston
vHPM - Houston (36 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

vHPM - Houston has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · TX · Houston

1,299 Steel 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 Friedman Sinton 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpharetta ALP 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MRC Global -032 Munster, IN (RDC) 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triad Plate Products 1.4 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 Hydro Maintenance Bldg Wissota-1Z 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2521 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2428 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Battery Ft Lauderdale 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midway USA 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waters Of America #26 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moton Early Childhood Center 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill 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: 2023, 2022. 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.