Barge Repair · Texas

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur

Port Arthur, TX · ~118 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Barge Repair workplace, earning a grade A.

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Barge Repair BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur safety composite

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Port Arthur, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/27
  • PHOTO Serco - Alexandria,V…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Serco - Alexandria,VA - Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Barge Repair BLS benchmark).

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

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur falls in its industry

454 Barge Repair establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 27 Barge Repair employers in Texas.

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur (118 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur
VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur (118 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur has more employees than the Barge Repair median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2023 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · TX · Port Arthur

454 Barge Repair employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 122 employers in Port Arthur, 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 Serco - Alexandria,VA - Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd._2440 Kiewit Road 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Orleans Shipyard 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms Marfa 2 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pintail Alternative Energy, LLC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oncor West DOC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE TYLER SC&TRANS 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Motiva Enterprises LLC 1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Port Arthur Liquefaction Project 1,428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Echo Maintenance LLC 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Premcor Refining Group INC 773 FTE
NAT-TCR La Amistad 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotwire Communications - Bala 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Walter USA, LLC 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TULUOKQQ - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shades Unlimited, Inc. Knoxville Warehouse 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAU at Kimberly-Clark Hendersonville 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varenna 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Pest Control 118 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. 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.