Fire and rescue service · Texas
Hays County ESD No 5
Kyle, TX · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Hays County ESD No 5 runs at 620% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 17
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Hays County ESD No 5's OSHA Total Case Rate of 19.9 to the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark of 3.2 (620% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Hays County ESD No 5's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.
Where Hays County ESD No 5 falls in its industry
1,057 Fire and rescue service establishmentsSafer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.5.
Trend analysis for Hays County ESD No 5
Between 2022 and 2023, Hays County ESD No 5's Total Case Rate improved from 37.3 to 2.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 94% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 2.4, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 37.3, a spread of 34.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Hays County ESD No 5 recorded 17 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 17 injuries, 12 illnesses shown on this page for Hays County ESD No 5 are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922160 - Fire and rescue service.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 166,920 hours worked = 2.40 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hays County ESD No 5 (this establishment) | 19.85 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 922160 |
| Texas state avg (all industries) | 3.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hays County ESD No 5 to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 27 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 12 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 37.3 | 19.3 | 15 | 12 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hays County ESD No 5's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire and rescue service peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 620% of the Fire and rescue service benchmark, Hays County ESD No 5 reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Fire and rescue service sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.