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 15 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behlen Mfg co. | Mcgregor | Steel mill construction | F | 15.7 |
| AOT-DSP | Richardson | Local letter and parcel deli | F | 15.7 |
| Hyatt Regency Frisco-Dallas | Frisco | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 15.7 |
| Merit Services | Denton | Air system balancing and tes | F | 15.7 |
| Fort Worth Meat Packers | Fort Worth | Boxed meat produced from pur | F | 15.7 |
| LQ0177 Austin - Southwest | Austin | Hospitality | F | 15.7 |
| LMMM Valley#2, LTD | Pharr | Delicatessens primarily reta | F | 15.7 |
| SODEXO AT TX CHRISTIAN UNIV Chick Fil | Fort Worth | Food Service Contractors | F | 15.7 |
| LMMM Laredo #1, LTD | Laredo | Food (i.e., groceries) store | F | 15.7 |
| Texas Land Care | Dallas | Landscaping services (except | F | 15.7 |
| Store 0455 | Terrell | General Merchandise Stores | F | 15.7 |
| R.M. Wright Construction Co. | El Paso | Construction management, wat | F | 15.6 |
| Texas Wood Supply Donna, TX Manufacturing | Donna | Moldings, clear and finger j | F | 15.6 |
| 6400-SWY-0020-0023-02481 | Austin | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.6 |
| 392 Katy TX | Katy | Commercial Bakeries | F | 15.6 |
| J-Iii Concrete Co.,Inc | Weslaco | Concrete batch plants (inclu | F | 15.6 |
| Electro-Coatings of California, Inc. | San Antonio | Plating metals and metal pro | F | 15.6 |
| McCoys Building Supply- Del Rio | Del Rio | Building materials supply de | F | 15.6 |
| Port_Main Location | Corpus Christi | Vocational habilitation job | F | 15.6 |
| McCoys Building Supply- Midland | Midland | Building materials supply de | F | 15.6 |
| McCoy's Building Supply - Midland Reload - 356 | Midland | Lumber retailing yards | F | 15.6 |
| FedEx 2802 OSLER DR | Grand Prairie | Courier and Express Delivery | F | 15.6 |
| Riverside Inn at Fossil Creek | Forth Worth | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.6 |
| Fort Worth Animal Emergency Hospital | Fort Worth | Animal hospitals | F | 15.6 |
| 481370-HOU-EASTWOOD | Houston | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.6 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Midland Odessa | Midland | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | F | 15.6 |
| Indicom Buildings Inc. | Burleson | Manufactured (mobile) buildi | F | 15.6 |
| South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. | Harlingen | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 15.6 |
| 0680 - Corpus Christi, Tx | Corpus Christi | Retail Stores | F | 15.5 |
| El Ahorro Supermarket 20, LLC | Houston | Grocery stores | F | 15.5 |
| Beverly Hills_1354860 | Dallas | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.5 |
| 220 El Paso (Eastgate) | El Paso | Retail | F | 15.5 |
| 7000-85702 | San Antonio | Residential Intellectual and | F | 15.5 |
| Pony Express DSP | Fort Worth | Express delivery services (e | F | 15.5 |
| Store 0362 | Weatherford | General Merchandise Stores | F | 15.5 |
| Exide Technologies | Irving | Batteries, rechargeable, man | F | 15.5 |
| PAM Rehab Roundrock | Roundrock | General medical and surgical | F | 15.5 |
| Txluo - Lubbock | Lubbock | Corporate Subsidiary and Re | F | 15.5 |
| LQ0567 San Antonio - Market Square | San Antonio | Hospitality | F | 15.5 |
| Lakefield Veterinary Group - 102 | Conroe | Veterinary Services | F | 15.4 |
| ValleyBaptMC-BrwEVS | Brownsville | - | F | 15.4 |
| PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Allen | Allen | General medical and surgical | F | 15.4 |
| KWM, Inc. dba Stainless Structurals Works | Conroe | Steel mill products (e.g., b | F | 15.4 |
| 6458-SDRS | Dallas | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.4 |
| Maple Ridge | Cedar Park | Continuing Care Retirement C | F | 15.4 |
| TERRELL_1384460 | Terrell | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.4 |
| Abilene TX Operations | Abilene | Medical Transport | F | 15.4 |
| 555 San Antonio | San Antonio | Freight Trucking LTL | F | 15.4 |
| TWC Architectural Mouldings WAX | Waxahachie | Door shutters, wood, manufac | F | 15.4 |
| American Equipment & Trailer, Inc. Amarillo | Amarillo | All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) | F | 15.4 |
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.