Hospital Research · Texas

Houston Methodist Research Institute

Houston, TX · ~797 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Methodist Research Institute runs at 712% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hospital Research workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Methodist Research Institute: 3.6 TCR = 712% of Hospital Research BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Methodist Research Institute safety composite

Houston Methodist Research Institute scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Research Institute held a steady TCR band

Houston Methodist Research Institute's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.6 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.6 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541715 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.6 · 712% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Sloan Kettering Inst…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~797 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sloan Kettering Institute Corporation (SKI) (0.4 TCR gap)

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Houston Methodist Research Institute in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Methodist Research Institute averages 3.6 TCR (712% of the Hospital Research BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Methodist Research Institute TCR series: 2021=3.6 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 0.5

Where Houston Methodist Research Institute falls in its industry

47 Hospital Research establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Hospital Research employers in Texas.

Houston Methodist Research Institute (797 employees, TCR 3.6) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 232 employees and a TCR of 0.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 05,00010,00015,00020,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston Methodist Research Institute (797 employees, TCR 3.6) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 232 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Houston Methodist Research Institute has more employees than the Hospital Research median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 3.5 1.5 24 2 0
2021 3.6 2.2 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541715 · TX · Houston

47 Hospital Research 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 Sloan Kettering Institute Corporation (SKI) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCG GreenChem, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medical Central 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI INDUSTRIES, LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 777 Main 797 FTE
STATE-SIZE Angel Brothers Enterprises, LTD. 798 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Energy Solutions, LLC - Beaumont 798 FTE
STATE-SIZE MESQUITE TX 798 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 Marquis Energy-Wisconsin, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopeville Elementary School 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPP Reading Box - 014 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta Packaging Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylors International Services, Inc 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital 797 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stl-Ground Ops 797 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, 2021. 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.