Water treatment and distribution · Texas

Hays Utility South

Spring, TX · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hays Utility South runs at 588% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Hays Utility South: 7.1 TCR = 588% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hays Utility South safety composite

Hays Utility South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hays Utility South: 5.5 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2020

Hays Utility South's TCR rose 3.0 from 5.5 in 2019 to 8.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Spring, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 588% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #22/25
  • PHOTO City of San Bernardi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of San Bernardino Water Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hays Utility South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hays Utility South averages 7.1 TCR (588% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Hays Utility South TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=8.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Hays Utility South falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 25 Water treatment and distributi employers in Texas.

Hays Utility South (72 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hays Utility South
Hays Utility South (72 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Hays Utility South has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 8.6 7.1 6 0 0
2019 5.5 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · TX · Spring

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 212 employers in Spring, 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 City of San Bernardino Water Department 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Tinley Park - PW Water 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Montgomery 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WATER ADMIN 1530 S WEST TEMPLE 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Rice 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes Foods Inc / Hatchery 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGL WATER SOLUTIONS, LLC-MIDLAND 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exxon Mobil Corporation Houston Campus 5,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP Inc. Houston 2,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Global Services Company Houston Campus 2,050 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Bureau of Shipping 1,159 FTE
NAT-TCR Vectren Corporation - Bloomington 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wingate at Ulster 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 47 Capitola 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta Marriott Century Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE LCS Constructors, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE KW-Precast 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Alabama Specialty Hospital 72 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.