Horse racing stables · Texas

Sam Houston Race Park

Houston, TX · ~244 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam Houston Race Park runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Horse racing stables workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam Houston Race Park: 4.5 TCR = 145% of Horse racing stables BLS 3.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam Houston Race Park safety composite

Sam Houston Race Park scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2024

Sam Houston Race Park injury rate improved

Sam Houston Race Park's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=11.0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711219 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Aquatics
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aquatics (0.3 TCR gap)

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Sam Houston Race Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam Houston Race Park averages 4.5 TCR (145% of the Horse racing stables BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sam Houston Race Park TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=11 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Sam Houston Race Park falls in its industry

28 Horse racing stables establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sam Houston Race Park (244 employees, TCR 4.5) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam Houston Race Park
Sam Houston Race Park (244 employees, TCR 4.5) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Sam Houston Race Park has more employees than the Horse racing stables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 2.5 1.3 4 0 0
2023 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2020 11.0 11.0 8 0 0
2019 5.4 0.0 8 0 0
2018 2.2 1.1 4 0 0
2016 4.3 2.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711219 · TX · Houston

28 Horse racing stables 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 Aquatics 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joe Gibbs Racing, Inc - NC: XFN, MX, DEV 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joe Gibbs Racing LLC - NC: XFN, DEV 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feld Entertainment - Poplar Branch 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FedEx 17855 JFK BLVD 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Customer Service Center 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3169 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0693 - SONTERRA PARK TX WHSE 244 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 Missoula - 4889 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elyria 10165 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Coho Distributing, LLC - Bend 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenn Metalcraft, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kit HomeBuilders West LLC 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE ICP Distribution Center 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6446 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6300 244 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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