Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Texas

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)

Houston, TX · ~2,429 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX): 8.7 TCR = 116% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) safety composite

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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 8.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX): 6.3 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2020

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)'s TCR rose 9.3 from 6.3 in 2016 to 15.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 8.7 · 116% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #473/520
  • PHOTO Sutter Bay Hospitals…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 652 inj
  • SIZE ~2,429 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sutter Bay Hospitals (30020) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) averages 8.7 TCR (116% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=15.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #473 safest of 520 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Texas.

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) (2,429 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) (2,429 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2020 15.6 11.6 149 130 0
2019 8.3 4.3 150 13 0
2018 7.8 4.6 143 1 0
2017 5.5 2.8 98 0 0
2016 6.3 2.8 112 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TX · Houston

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 Sutter Bay Hospitals (30020) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regional Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas 2,429 FTE
STATE-SIZE MedData, Inc. 2,438 FTE
STATE-SIZE METHDOSIT HOSPITALS OF DALLAS 2,442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facility Solutions Group, Inc. 2,443 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 440 Seaview Avenue 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sxb 19 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 000000109g Quickchek Food Stores 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Villas at Canterfield 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BayCare Medical Group, Inc. (4310) 2,430 FTE
NAT-SIZE College of DuPage 2,427 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missouri Baptist Medical Center 2,431 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Florida (Hospital) 2,432 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.