Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) · Texas

W. Douglass Distributing

Sherman, TX · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. Douglass Distributing runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) workplace, earning a grade D.

W. Douglass Distributing: 3.3 TCR = 151% of Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. Douglass Distributing safety composite

W. Douglass Distributing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

W. Douglass Distributing: 3.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2022

W. Douglass Distributing's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.0 in 2021 to 3.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424720 · Sherman, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #28/34
  • PHOTO Rhinehart Oil Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rhinehart Oil Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. Douglass Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. Douglass Distributing averages 3.3 TCR (151% of the Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS benchmark).

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

W. Douglass Distributing TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where W. Douglass Distributing falls in its industry

218 Petroleum and petroleum produc establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 34 Petroleum and petroleum produc employers in Texas.

W. Douglass Distributing (202 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate W. Douglass Distributing
W. Douglass Distributing (202 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0

W. Douglass Distributing has more employees than the Petroleum and petroleum products merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 3.7 3.7 6 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424720 · TX · Sherman

218 Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sherman, 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 Rhinehart Oil Company 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taunton 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowleys Wholesale MISE 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Busch Distributors Stateline 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Greenspoint Service Center 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE 31041 - GOODYEAR - BEAUMONT 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cutlass Solar 2 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.A. Fuller & Sons Construction Ltd. 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health 6,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman Case Rdy Plant 1,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson N. Jones Regional Medical Center 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman 675 FTE
NAT-TCR Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Genacross Napoleon Campus 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere Cylinder Div. - Moline 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Haven at Peace Village 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lorenz Bus 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adult Learning Systems Lower Michigan 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03345 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-ALBIR5 202 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.