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
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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.

Hays County ESD No 5: 19.9 TCR = 620% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hays County ESD No 5 safety composite

Hays County ESD No 5 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−34.9

2022→2023

Hays County ESD No 5 injury rate improved

Hays County ESD No 5's TCR fell 34.9 from 37.3 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 37.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=37.3 · 2023=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Kyle, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.9 · 620% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P11
  • PHOTO Savoy Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Savoy Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hays County ESD No 5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hays County ESD No 5 averages 19.9 TCR (620% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Hays County ESD No 5 TCR series: 2022=37.3 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Hays County ESD No 5 falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hays County ESD No 5 (50 employees, TCR 19.9) 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 Hays County ESD No 5
Hays County ESD No 5 (50 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Hays County ESD No 5 has fewer employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2022 37.3 19.3 15 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · TX · Kyle

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 45 employers in Kyle, 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 Savoy Fire Department 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Anaheim, Fire Station #1 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Highland Fire Department 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Ramsey - Fire Department 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1836 Farms LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwertner Farms, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Floydada Coop Gin #1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf Coast Area Office 6400 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR TXAUS41 ASCENSION SETON MEDICAL CTR HAYS 954 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXAUS41 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS5 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4130 328 FTE
NAT-TCR HG404 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Val Vista Animal Hospital 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 50040 - CAPSTONE Lifetime Fontana CA 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Hopkins 19.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch 5446 - Randolph MA (WP) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit Industries, Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sperry's Theatre Operations, LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmidtlein Excavating, Inc 50 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: 2023, 2022. 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.