Ambulance services, air or ground · Texas

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc.

Harlingen, TX · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. runs at 409% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc.: 15.6 TCR = 409% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. safety composite

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−10.7

2016→2018

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. injury rate improved

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.7 from 21.6 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 21.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.6 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=10.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Harlingen, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 409% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #57/63
  • PHOTO Thurston County Ope…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thurston County Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. averages 15.6 TCR (409% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. TCR series: 2016=21.6 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=10.8 · BLS 3.8

Where South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 63 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Texas.

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. (82 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc.
South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. (82 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. has more employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2018 10.8 9.8 10 1 0
2017 14.3 11.2 14 0 0
2016 21.6 17.6 16 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · TX · Harlingen

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 133 employers in Harlingen, 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 Thurston County Operations 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swartz Ambulance Service, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knox County District 1 FireOperations 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meda Care Ambulance Service LLC 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORTELLARO'S NURSERY LTD SCHERTZ, TX 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland 11700 Onyx Dr, Midland, TX 79706 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maverick Well Pluggers 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocker A Well Service, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-838 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_Harlingen_2921 S. Expswy 83_TCIP2T20 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 595 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Oak Ridge Center 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwood Center 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Steel Fabrication 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terre Haute Fleet - 1702 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Layton Blvd. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis Healthcare Packaging - Carolina 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-XII Billerica LLC 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE BD-Burlington 82 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: 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.