General medical and surgical hospitals · Texas

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center

Houston, TX · ~7,983 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center: 10.6 TCR = 142% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center safety composite

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center held a steady TCR band

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center's TCR held near 0.2 from 10.3 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2017=10.0 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=11.1 · 2022=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 10.6 · 142% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #496/520
  • PHOTO Goleta Valley Cottag…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3,333 inj
  • SIZE ~7,983 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center averages 10.6 TCR (142% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=10 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=11.1 · 2022=10.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #496 safest of 520 General medical and surgical h employers in Texas.

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center (7,983 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center (7,983 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2022 10.5 6.0 664 14 0
2019 11.1 6.6 731 23 0
2018 11.3 6.0 720 4 0
2017 10.0 4.9 601 9 0
2016 10.3 5.5 617 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TX · Houston

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9292-AHTM001 - HOSPITAL 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clifton Fine Health Care Corporation 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carilion Clinic Tazewell Community Hospital Co. 09 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Houston Methodist Hospital (Medical Center) 8,325 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-238 8,351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Driveline Retail Merchandising 7,570 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 Country Villa Plaza Nursing Center 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 072332-Den-Bear Valley Sta 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Cloud Math and Science Academy 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 161504-Chi-Cesar Chavez Sta 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
NAT-SIZE UW Medical Center Montlake 7,958 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8,018 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camarillo Senior Living 7,947 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: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.