TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
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).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
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
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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.
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.
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.
Texas'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 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.
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 543 | Weslaco | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 5.1 |
| Morrell Masonry Supply | Houston | Construction materials, elec | F | 5.1 |
| BELTON_1354596 | Belton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| Fleet: Dallas SDO | Dallas | Courier services (i.e., inte | B | 5.1 |
| Venture Metals | Dallas | Metal scrap and waste mercha | F | 5.1 |
| Reagent Chemical - Stanton | Stanton | Chemicals (except agricultur | F | 5.1 |
| Scholl Forest Industries, Inc. | Houston | LUMBERYARD-NEW MATERIALS ONL | F | 5.1 |
| Lmmm Houston #56, Ltd | Houston | Delicatessens primarily reta | D | 5.1 |
| Hospice Compassus Temple | Temple | Home health care agencies | C | 5.1 |
| Fresh #802 | Fate | Grocery stores | D | 5.1 |
| 2662-3013 | Crowley | School and Employee Bus Tran | C | 5.1 |
| 480417-Aus-South Congress Sta | Austin | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.1 |
| CAB Incorporated | Nacogdoches | Flanges and flange unions, p | D | 5.1 |
| 2993 | Sugar Land | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| 38341 - Brook Hollow Plant | Dallas | Other Snack Food Manufacturi | D | 5.1 |
| 4021-763100000 | San Antonio | Vending machine merchandiser | D | 5.1 |
| Txgran-Opi-Grand Prairie 454 | Grand Prairie | PLASMA COLLECTION | D | 5.1 |
| LMC Spring | Spring | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 5.1 |
| Betenbough Homes - Midland | Midland | Residential for-sale builder | D | 5.1 |
| 00553-H41 Bearcreek | Houston | Grocery Stores | D | 5.1 |
| Ross store 674 | Watauga | Retail Store | D | 5.1 |
| Ross store 2006 | Prosper | Retail Store | D | 5.1 |
| 4535-1466 | Beaumont | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 5.1 |
| 6400-Swy 0020 1854 | Flower Mound | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Delta Steel DFW | Cedar Hill | Steel merchant wholesalers | F | 5.1 |
| West Houston Medical Center | Houston | General medical and surgical | B | 5.1 |
| Champion Waste & Recycling Services- Dallas | Dallas | Recyclable material collecti | D | 5.1 |
| PPC | Carrollton | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | D | 5.1 |
| 60379 TSC Texas City | Texas City | Tanker trucking long distanc | C | 5.1 |
| 2253-H4686 | Dallas | General Medical and Surgical | D | 5.1 |
| Werner | Houston | Forklift trucks (except log) | F | 5.1 |
| The Cleaning Authority | Houston | Cleaning homes | C | 5.1 |
| Brookdale Senior Living | Corpus Christi | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
| Construction Equipment Parts, Inc. | Dallas | Industrial machinery and equ | F | 5.1 |
| Ryder Location 8822 | Ennis | Trucking, general freight, l | C | 5.1 |
| Ridgmar Medical Lodge | Fort Worth | Nursing homes | B | 5.1 |
| Baylor Scott & White Emergency Hospital Murphy | Murphy | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.1 |
| TransPak - DIV 147 Round Rock | Round Rock | Packing crates, wood, manufa | D | 5.1 |
| Sp-Asc Seton Wms | Round Rock | - | D | 5.1 |
| HOUSTON SOUTHWEST ZONE EmpWorkCtrCd 30001735 | Houston | Confectionery Merchant Whole | F | 5.1 |
| Rick Stone Masonry, Inc. | Helotes | Masonry contractors | D | 5.1 |
| Big Spring Center for Skilled Care | Big Spring | Nursing homes | B | 5.1 |
| 0552 Westmoreland | Dallas | Home Centers | D | 5.1 |
| Wm 6269 | Harlingen | - | D | 5.1 |
| 2807-0097 | Baytown | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| 730 | Houston | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | F | 5.1 |
| 4765-IAHCC0170 | Humble | Other Airport Operations | C | 5.1 |
| 4795 | Grapevine | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| San Angelo Community Med Ctr | San Angelo | - | C | 5.1 |
| IAC Fort Worth | Fort Worth | Maintenance and repair servi | C | 5.1 |
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.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (38,394 here).
Look up a Texas employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.