Homeless shelters · Texas

Esperanza Emergency Shelter

Austin, TX · ~124 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esperanza Emergency Shelter runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Homeless shelters workplace, earning a grade B.

Esperanza Emergency Shelter: 2.8 TCR = 73% of Homeless shelters BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esperanza Emergency Shelter safety composite

Esperanza Emergency Shelter scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2023→2024

Esperanza Emergency Shelter injury rate improved

Esperanza Emergency Shelter's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.6 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624221 · Austin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/30
  • PHOTO Drueding Center Proj…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Drueding Center Project Rainbow (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esperanza Emergency Shelter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esperanza Emergency Shelter averages 2.8 TCR (73% of the Homeless shelters BLS benchmark).

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

Esperanza Emergency Shelter TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Esperanza Emergency Shelter falls in its industry

200 Homeless shelters establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 30 Homeless shelters employers in Texas.

Esperanza Emergency Shelter (124 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Esperanza Emergency Shelter
Esperanza Emergency Shelter (124 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Esperanza Emergency Shelter has more employees than the Homeless shelters median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 3.6 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624221 · TX · Austin

200 Homeless shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 Drueding Center Project Rainbow 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarters 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR One-Eighty Place 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concourse House Housing Development Fund Company Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Citadel Drilling Ltd 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cisco Logistics 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Bellaire 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stoneridge Solar 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Henderson Incorporated 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pfannenberg Manufacturing LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Long Beach 4100 Donald Douglas Dr 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR H&R Contractors, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE M. R. Tanner Development and Construction, LLC 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horton Inc 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coral Springs Marriott 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-NAES Boston 124 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. 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.