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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.

Texas grade distribution 38,382 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Texas'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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
A. Zahner Co (Grand Prairie, TX) Grand Prairie Ornamental metalwork manufac D 5.7
Muleshoe Area Medical Center Muleshoe Hospitals, general medical a B 5.7
Duncanville, Tx #00311 Duncanville Retail Hardware Stores D 5.7
Borger Service Center-132 Borger Electric Power Distribution F 5.7
80645-Milk Plant-Sa San Antonio Grocery Stores D 5.7
Hg1011 Katy Homefurnishings stores D 5.7
Noltex Holdings San Antonio San Antonio Floor trusses, wood, manufac D 5.7
DFW026 Dallas Airports, Flying Fields & Se D 5.7
Houston (Mesa) Houston Metals Service Centers F 5.7
El Paso Service Processing Center El Paso Detention centers D 5.7
Rivershire, Elmcroft of Conroe - D 5.7
Park Plaza Hospital - EVS Houston - D 5.7
North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : FTW1 Dallas General Warehousing and Stor C 5.7
Houston SDO Houston Courier services (i.e., inte C 5.7
Capital Excavation Company Buda Pavement, highway, road, str F 5.7
Hilton Garden Inn Austin N Austin Hotels (except Casino Hotels D 5.7
Cadeco Industries, Inc. - Houston Houston Coffee roasting D 5.7
Champlain Cable Pan American Corporation El Paso Insulating purchased nonferr D 5.7
Gerdau- Houston RS Navasota Concrete reinforcing bar (re D 5.7
Store #75 Normangee Grocery stores D 5.7
Midland Memorial Hospital Midland Healthcare B 5.7
Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier Galveston Piers, amusement D 5.7
TXA019 Pflugerville Tire Dealers D 5.7
TXS021 New Braunfels Tire Dealers D 5.7
Bastrop Bastrop Central-mixed concrete manuf D 5.7
Thurman Transportation, Inc. Cleburne Trucking, specialized freigh D 5.7
Precision Mold & Tool Govt. Division San Antonio Aircraft engine and engine p D 5.7
Tapatio Springs Hill Country Resort Boerne Hotels (except casino hotels D 5.7
034-00389 Magnolia Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Delta Temp Services, LLC Harlingen HVAC (heating, ventilation a F 5.7
Building Products Plus Co LLC Houston Sawmill D 5.7
College Street Health Care Center Beaumont Skilled nursing facilities C 5.7
Wm 508 Kerrville Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
Vitalant TX San Angelo San Angelo Blood banking D 5.7
The Crossing at Flower Mound Flower Mound - D 5.7
1705 Harris Co Tollway Pasadena Construction management, hig F 5.7
North Texas Bomanite, Inc. dba Texas Bomanite Dallas Concrete paving, residential F 5.7
7198-00800140 Dallas Other Grocery and Related Pr F 5.7
San Antonio TX Windows San Antonio Vinyl windows manufacturing D 5.7
158 Bonham Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
385 Cuero All Other General Merchandis D 5.7
4021-000008089 Dallas Food Services D 5.7
Bed Bath and Beyond Beaumont TX Beaumont retailing new home furnishin D 5.7
Store #087 Quinlan Supermarkets D 5.7
Northeast Baptist Hospital San Antonio General medical and surgical B 5.7
Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center Austin - C 5.7
Store #55 Smithville Grocery stores D 5.7
Timpson Hatchery Timpson Poultry Hatcheries D 5.7
Specialty Concrete - Dallas Ft. Worth Concrete finishing F 5.7
Republic Services of Cleveland Cleveland Refuse collection services F 5.7
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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.

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.