Hospital · Texas

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center

Houston, TX · ~8,873 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospital workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center: 10.4 TCR = 138% of Hospital BLS 7.5 · 2y 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 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center injury rate improved

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center's TCR fell 0.5 from 10.6 in 2023 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.6 · 2024=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 10.4 · 138% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #494/520
  • PHOTO Houston Methodist St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1,440 inj
  • SIZE ~8,873 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston Methodist St. John Hospital (Nassau Bay, TX) (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 10.4 TCR (138% of the Hospital 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: 2023=10.6 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospital establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #494 safest of 520 Hospital employers in Texas.

Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center (8,873 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 (8,873 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Hospital 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
2024 10.1 5.7 711 4 0
2023 10.6 6.0 729 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TX · Houston

6,862 Hospital 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 Houston Methodist St. John Hospital (Nassau Bay, TX) 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Hospital Allentown 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chilton Medical Center 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Texas Children's Hospital 8,769 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bexar County Hospital District 8,703 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakin Texas Technology Park (DTTP) 9,168 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 (Medical Center) 8,325 FTE
NAT-TCR Pasta - State College 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WD Door - Ankeny 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DFH7 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flying Pig Logistics DWO1 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NJ3726001 8,857 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC. 8,819 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Partners in Care 8,819 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.