Hospital · Texas

Houston Methodist West Hospital

Houston, TX · ~2,191 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Methodist West Hospital runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospital workplace, earning a grade C.

Houston Methodist West Hospital: 8.9 TCR = 119% of Hospital BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Methodist West Hospital safety composite

Houston Methodist West Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 West Hospital held a steady TCR band

Houston Methodist West Hospital's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.8 in 2023 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.8 · 2024=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 8.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #478/520
  • PHOTO AdventHealth Murray
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 304 inj
  • SIZE ~2,191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdventHealth Murray (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Methodist West Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Methodist West Hospital averages 8.9 TCR (119% of the Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Methodist West Hospital TCR series: 2023=8.8 · 2024=9 · BLS 7.5

Where Houston Methodist West Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospital establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #478 safest of 520 Hospital employers in Texas.

Houston Methodist West Hospital (2,191 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 West Hospital
Houston Methodist West Hospital (2,191 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Houston Methodist West Hospital 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 9.0 4.6 157 1 0
2023 8.8 4.3 147 3 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 AdventHealth Murray 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNH - Baystate Noble Hospital 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6403-64030510 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DAL2 2,193 FTE
STATE-SIZE TXAUS40 ASCENSION SETON MEDICAL CENTER AUSTIN 2,197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital 2,185 FTE
STATE-SIZE TXDFA - DALLAS/FORT WORTH AIRPORT HUB 2,183 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 Tnmur - Murfreesboro 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TGZ Logistics llc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR California Rice Center, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Air, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : IND8 2,192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frontier Airlines - Denver Base 2,189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emerald Queen Hotel & Casinos 2,193 FTE
NAT-SIZE HE-Midway Corporate Campus 2,194 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.