Rail car cleaning · Texas

VLS Hockley

Hockley, TX · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VLS Hockley runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rail car cleaning workplace, earning a grade A.

VLS Hockley: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Rail car cleaning BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VLS Hockley safety composite

VLS Hockley scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−4.3

2018→2023

VLS Hockley injury rate improved

VLS Hockley's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2019=2.0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Hockley, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/82
  • PHOTO Parsec Charleston NS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parsec Charleston NS (0.0 TCR gap)

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VLS Hockley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VLS Hockley averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Rail car cleaning BLS benchmark).

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

VLS Hockley TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where VLS Hockley falls in its industry

409 Rail car cleaning establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 82 Rail car cleaning employers in Texas.

VLS Hockley (51 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate VLS Hockley
VLS Hockley (51 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

VLS Hockley has more employees than the Rail car cleaning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · TX · Hockley

409 Rail car cleaning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Hockley, 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 Parsec Charleston NS 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston BNSF 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modesto/Woodland 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savage Services - Tolk 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore County Gin 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsmith 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Directional Drilling 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Liquid Measurement, Inc. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schulte Building Systems, Inc.-Hockley 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Plumbing 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hockley 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curry Rail Services - Hockley 67 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0628 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McKay's Market Gold Beach #11 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Batavia DC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR United Dairy Farmers Wholesale 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westlake Tool & Die 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Electric Company, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hinson Electric, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE GoodLand Construction, Inc. 51 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, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.