Children's hospitals, general · Texas

Texas Children's Hospital

Houston, TX · ~8,769 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Texas Children's Hospital runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Children's hospitals, general workplace, earning a grade A.

Texas Children's Hospital: 3.3 TCR = 44% of Children's hospitals, general BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Texas Children's Hospital safety composite

Texas Children's Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2018→2024

Texas Children's Hospital injury rate improved

Texas Children's Hospital's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.8 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.8 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 3.3 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #135/520
  • PHOTO Novant Health Hunter…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1,305 inj
  • SIZE ~8,769 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Texas Children's Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Texas Children's Hospital averages 3.3 TCR (44% of the Children's hospitals, general BLS benchmark).

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

Texas Children's Hospital TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Texas Children's Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Children's hospitals, general establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #135 safest of 520 Children's hospitals, general employers in Texas.

Texas Children's Hospital (8,769 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital (8,769 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Texas Children's Hospital has more employees than the Children's hospitals, general median and a lower 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 2.1 1.3 159 7 0
2023 2.5 1.4 179 21 0
2022 3.3 1.3 176 76 0
2021 3.4 1.7 168 72 0
2020 4.4 2.9 169 133 0
2019 3.4 1.3 219 32 0
2018 3.8 1.6 235 32 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · TX · Houston

6,862 Children's hospitals, general 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 Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redington Fairview General Hospital 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northfield 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutton County Hospital District 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bexar County Hospital District 8,703 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakin Texas Technology Park (DTTP) 9,168 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 (Medical Center) 8,325 FTE
NAT-TCR Rancho Cucamonga Packaged Gas Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - YUNGOH 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stringer Industries, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Ag Personnel Management Inc. 8,764 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ktky Truck 8,757 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Virginia Medical Center 8,738 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nebraska Medicine 8,728 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.