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
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.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 8.7
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 652
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 8.7 to the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark of 7.5 (116% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) falls in its industry
7,181 Hospitals, general medical and establishmentsSafer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #489 safest of 536 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Texas.
Trend analysis for Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)
Between 2016 and 2020, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)'s Total Case Rate worsened from 6.3 to 15.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 147% increase across 4 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 5.5, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 15.6, a spread of 10.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 5 reporting years, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) recorded 652 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 652 injuries, 145 illnesses shown on this page for Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - Hospitals, general medical and surgical.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
208 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 3,573,622 hours worked = 11.64 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) (this establishment) | 8.69 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Texas state avg (all industries) | 3.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 279 reportable incidents · 149 injuries, 130 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 163 reportable incidents · 150 injuries, 13 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 144 reportable incidents · 143 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 98 reportable incidents · 98 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 113 reportable incidents · 112 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX)'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Hospitals, general medical and surgical peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 116% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical benchmark, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital (Sugar Land, TX) reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Hospitals, general medical and surgical sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.