Employer · Texas

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center

Houston, TX · ~576 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center: 6.6 TCR = 174% of industry BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center safety composite

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center: 3.8 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.8 in 2019 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 174% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #160/208
  • PHOTO Kennesaw Plasma Center
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~576 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kennesaw Plasma Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center averages 6.6 TCR (174% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center falls in its industry

1,713 industry establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #160 safest of 208 industry employers in Texas.

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center (576 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center (576 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 8.5 4.9 25 13 0
2023 5.8 3.9 12 12 0
2022 4.5 2.3 21 12 0
2021 10.5 9.0 26 43 0
2019 3.8 2.8 25 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · TX · Houston

1,713 industry 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 Kennesaw Plasma Center 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TXDALL-OPI-DALLAS 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warner Robins, GA-Biolife 706 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhart, IN-Biolife 618 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRS Dallas TX 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milestone Electric 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Permian Ops - Hwy 80, Midkiff, Big Lake 577 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2284-805 575 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 Bbb 15750 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyland Grain, LLC- Hugoton 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Powerbrace Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking SupplyNet & Fabrication Services - Santa Fe Springs 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clark Regional Medical Center 576 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suzanna's Kitchen, Inc. 576 FTE
NAT-SIZE D1 District HQ 576 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center 576 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, 2021, 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.