Ambulance and fire service combined · Texas

Harris County Emergency Service District #9

Houston, TX · ~560 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Harris County Emergency Service District #9 runs at 601% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Harris County Emergency Service District #9: 19.2 TCR = 601% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harris County Emergency Service District #9 safety composite

Harris County Emergency Service District #9 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 27% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Harris County Emergency Service District #9: 14.8 → 23.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2021

Harris County Emergency Service District #9's TCR rose 9.0 from 14.8 in 2020 to 23.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.2 · 601% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~560 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.1 TCR gap)

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Harris County Emergency Service District #9 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harris County Emergency Service District #9 averages 19.2 TCR (601% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Harris County Emergency Service District #9 TCR series: 2020=14.8 · 2021=23.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Harris County Emergency Service District #9 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Harris County Emergency Service District #9 (560 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Harris County Emergency Service District #9
Harris County Emergency Service District #9 (560 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Harris County Emergency Service District #9 has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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
2021 23.7 8.2 60 44 1
2020 14.8 5.6 42 16 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · TX · Houston

793 Ambulance and fire service combined 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 Fire Department 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torrington Fire Department 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Savoy 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Fire Protection District 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Wonderful Company 560 FTE
STATE-SIZE Equipment Depot Texas, Inc 560 FTE
STATE-SIZE Labatt San Antonio 560 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUSUTXKW - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 560 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 Eagle Point Senior Living 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DHS-Glenwood Resource Center 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PalletSource, Inc. 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pueblo Truss Co., Inc. 19.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE BMO Harris Bank Center 560 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rummel Construction, Inc. 560 FTE
NAT-SIZE HH-GAINSNB 560 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: 2021, 2020. 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.