TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Texas workplace safety
How 38,394 OSHA-reporting employers across Texas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 38,394
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 611,611
- Injuries (all)
- 542
- Fatalities (all)
Texas vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
38,394 2nd of 54 higher than 52 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Texas's 32,225 rated reporting employers average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 32,225
- rated employers
- 38,394
- all reporting employers
- 611,611
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 38,394 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 22% B · 13% C · 30% D · 18% F · 17%
17% of Texas's reporting establishments earn an F and 22% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Texas ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRTexas's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 91% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Texas is #6 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 32,225-employer subset), it's #38 of 54, a 32-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Texas Workplaces Compare
Texas hosts 38,394 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Texas cohort, workers have logged 611,611 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 542 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Texas, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Texas, by injury rate
Page 115 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400251800 - Lubbock Isd | Lubbock | Food Services | F | 7.1 |
| Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital | Pearland | General medical and surgical | C | 7.1 |
| Forde Construction Company, Inc. | Houston | Road construction | F | 7.1 |
| TXH071 | Brenham | Tire Dealers | F | 7.1 |
| Johnson City | Johnson City | Central-mixed concrete manuf | F | 7.1 |
| Doorstep Delivery Solutions | Plano | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 7.1 |
| Norstar Trailers LLC | Brookston | Flatbed trailers, commercial | F | 7.1 |
| Hall Electrical Services, Inc. | Lewisville | Electrical work | F | 7.1 |
| Wm 4298 | Humble | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| Wm 5287 | Spring | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| 21175 | Houston | Dru and Druggist Sundries Me | F | 7.1 |
| 4701-838 | Harlingen | General medical and surgical | C | 7.1 |
| 484415-Jasper Po | Jasper | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.1 |
| 488210-Sealy Po | Sealy | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.1 |
| RYC Foods | San Antonio | Meat extracts made from purc | F | 7.1 |
| Farmers Co-op Gin | Anson | Cotton ginning | D | 7.1 |
| Fannin Sales, LLC | Frisco | Landscape installation servi | D | 7.1 |
| Harlingen (Txsbe) | San Benito | General Freight Trucking Loc | D | 7.1 |
| Genesis Healthcare | Abilene | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.1 |
| Edgewood Rehab and care center | Mesquite | Nursing homes | C | 7.1 |
| 615 | Houston | 711110 Theater Companies and | F | 7.1 |
| GILMER_1364804 | Gilmer | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.1 |
| Ausxl0001 Ausxl0001 | Austin | Airport passenger screen sec | D | 7.1 |
| IHC Temple Hospice | Temple | Hospice care services, in ho | D | 7.1 |
| J Kraft, Inc | Humble | Cabinets (i.e., housings), w | F | 7.1 |
| Springlake-Earth Cotton Growers | Springlake | Cotton ginning | D | 7.1 |
| Belmont Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Belmont at Twin Creeks | Allen | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.1 |
| Wheel and Tire Superstore LLC | Austin | Automotive tire repair (exce | F | 7.1 |
| HG736 | Fort Worth | Homefurnishings stores | F | 7.1 |
| 4911 | Mansfield | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - DHO5 | Houston | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.1 |
| 2253-H4858 | Houston | General Medical and Surgical | D | 7.1 |
| American Equipment & Trailer, Inc. Lubbock | Lubbock | Auto body shop supplies, mer | F | 7.1 |
| Paramount Senior Care Centers at San Antonio | San Antonio | Skilled Nursing Facility | C | 7.1 |
| NOV-FGS-USA-Texas-Burkburnett Ameron Fiberglass | Burkburnett | Fittings, rigid plastics pip | F | 7.1 |
| 007/Houston | Houston | All Other Home Furnishings S | F | 7.1 |
| ELG Metals - Houston | Houston | Recyclable materials (e.g., | F | 7.1 |
| ValleyBaptMC-HarEVS | Harlingen | - | D | 7.1 |
| 1065 - Rockwall | Rockwall | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.1 |
| TX | Brownsville | Packaging, plastics (e.g., b | F | 7.1 |
| Knight Transportation - Houston Ports | La Porte | Container trucking services, | D | 7.1 |
| Yoakum facility | Yoakum | Ornamental metalwork manufac | F | 7.1 |
| Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. Lewisville Main | Lewisville | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 7.1 |
| Action Gypsum Supply West Phoenix | Houston | Building board (e.g., fiber, | F | 7.1 |
| US Foods Austin | Austin | General-line groceries merch | F | 7.1 |
| Builders Equipment & Supply Co. | Fort Worth | Building materials supply de | F | 7.1 |
| Oaxaca Foods LLC | Stafford | - | F | 7.1 |
| Wm 4743 | Plano | - | F | 7.1 |
| Wm 3425 | Houston | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| Transmountain | El Paso | Fitness centers | F | 7.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Texas: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (38,394 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.