State profile · OSHA ITA
Texas workplace safety
How 38,394 OSHA-reporting employers across Texas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 38,394
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR
- 611,611
- Injuries
- 542
- Fatalities
The state picture
Texas's 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 · per 100 workers
- 38,394
- employers reporting
- 611,611
- recordable injuries
- 542
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Texas is #6 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 14 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lous barton springs | Austin | Full-Service Restaurants | F | 16.1 |
| DUNCANVILLE_1361443 | Duncanville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 16.1 |
| Champion Home Builders | Burleson | Mobile home manufacturing | F | 16.1 |
| 80965-Distr Ctr Svcs-Weslaco | Weslaco | Grocery Stores | F | 16.1 |
| McCoys Building Supply - League City | League City | Building materials supply de | F | 16.0 |
| 6458-ZNHO | Houston | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 16.0 |
| Swim Pure (Central) | Austin | Building exterior cleaning s | F | 16.0 |
| Bryan Iron & Metal | Bryan | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | F | 16.0 |
| TXA008 | Killeen | Tire Dealers | F | 16.0 |
| Cowtown Lubbock | Lubbock | Drywall and related building | F | 16.0 |
| The Lev at Winchester | Alvin | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 16.0 |
| Concord Supply Inc | San Antonio | Laminating purchased textile | F | 16.0 |
| TXD089 | Watauga | Tire Dealers | F | 16.0 |
| AUS - Inflight | Austin | Transportation | F | 16.0 |
| RD Food Manufacturing, Inc. | El Paso | Meats and meat products (exc | F | 16.0 |
| 31499 Store 31499 | Houston | All Other General Merchandis | F | 16.0 |
| McCoy's Reload Center | Burnet | Building materials supply de | F | 16.0 |
| Service 5212 | Houston | Miscellaneous Retail Stores | F | 16.0 |
| Sunny West Investments, Ltd. | Weatherford | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 16.0 |
| Adobe Animal Hospital | El Paso | Veterinary Services | F | 16.0 |
| Store 0575 | Abilene | General Merchandise Stores | F | 15.9 |
| Rice Farmers Cooperative | El Campo | Rice, unpolished, merchant w | F | 15.9 |
| FnR Wholesale TX Payroll | Dallas | - | F | 15.9 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04142 | Arlington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.9 |
| 4186-00451 | Texarkana | Dollar Stores | F | 15.9 |
| 991 Houston DC | Pasedena | Distribution Center | F | 15.9 |
| 6458-ZLRD | Laredo | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.9 |
| Trader Joe's 0429 Katy | Katy | Grocery Store | F | 15.9 |
| ALAMO_1352552 | Alamo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.9 |
| McCoys Building Supply-San Marcos | San Marcos | Building materials supply de | F | 15.9 |
| Store 1988 | Willis | General Merchandise Stores | F | 15.9 |
| Store 1727 | Cleveland | General Merchandise Stores | F | 15.9 |
| Texas Foam Inc. | Bastrop | Coolers or ice chests, polys | F | 15.9 |
| NBF West Houston LLC | Katy | Used household and office go | F | 15.9 |
| Falcon Point Labor, LLC | Katy | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.8 |
| TDS Starcrest | San Antonio | Garbage collection services | F | 15.8 |
| Hydro Resources Dripping Springs | Dripping Springs | Watter Well | F | 15.8 |
| Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley, Inc. | Pharr | Food banks | F | 15.8 |
| Tex- Mix Florence | Florence | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 15.8 |
| Texas Thrift Store- McAllen | Mcallen | Used merchandise stores | F | 15.8 |
| Silverado Hospice South Houston - 353 | Stafford | Hospice Care / Healthcare | F | 15.8 |
| Smt Austin | Austin | General freight trucking, lo | F | 15.8 |
| 500210500 St. Marys Univ. | San Antonio | Food Services | F | 15.8 |
| TX097 - Southlake Kimball | Southlake | Snack and Nonalcoholic Bever | F | 15.8 |
| Jack Hilliard Distributing Co., Inc Katy | Katy | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | F | 15.8 |
| Custom Pipe & Fabrication, Inc. / Conroe | Conroe | Pipe fabricating (i.e., bend | F | 15.8 |
| 4186-06969 | Houston | Dollar Stores | F | 15.8 |
| Arlington Plaza | Arlington | Retirement hotel rental or l | F | 15.8 |
| HG413 | Highland Village | Homefurnishings stores | F | 15.8 |
| Jondo, LTD- TX | Grand Prairie | Printing, digital (e.g., bil | F | 15.8 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Texas's safety record means for you
Texas averages a TCR of 4.4 - about 1.6× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.