Drywall contractors · Texas

Young & Sons Drywall

Houston, TX · ~151 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Young & Sons Drywall runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Young & Sons Drywall: 6.9 TCR = 248% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Young & Sons Drywall safety composite

Young & Sons Drywall scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Young & Sons Drywall: 0.6 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2024

Young & Sons Drywall's TCR rose 12.7 from 0.6 in 2019 to 13.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 248% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK #127/144
  • PHOTO Cutting Edge Drywall…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cutting Edge Drywall, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Young & Sons Drywall in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Young & Sons Drywall averages 6.9 TCR (248% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Young & Sons Drywall TCR series: 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.6 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=13.3 · 2024=13.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Young & Sons Drywall falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #127 safest of 144 Drywall contractors employers in Texas.

Young & Sons Drywall (151 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Young & Sons Drywall
Young & Sons Drywall (151 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Young & Sons Drywall has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 13.3 13.3 2 0 0
2023 13.3 13.3 2 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · TX · Houston

1,613 Drywall contractors 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 Cutting Edge Drywall, Inc 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triple H Contracting Inc 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermaseal/Lakeside #260 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acousti of Columbus, Inc 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westin Homes and Properties, LP 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Air Products-Laporte 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone Concrete Placement Tesla 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE DMG Masonry LLC 151 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 Molding Solutions, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Electronics Recycling 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CAN042 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta Regional Business Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poppelmann Plastics USA LLC 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plato Woodwork Inc 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Truitt Oilfield Maintenance Corp. 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Gardens Convalescent Hospital 151 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.