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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
Houston Express Houston Refrigerated Warehouse C 4.9
4795-Ea-Abi-Abilene-Eagle Tech Ops Abilene Scheduled Air Service C 4.9
Koy Concrete - Main office Sealy Ready-mix concrete manufactu D 4.9
4054-Abs 0021 4166 Desoto Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.9
FoodTown #004 Baytown Grocery stores D 4.9
Isabella Foods El Paso Tortillas manufacturing D 4.9
Silver Eagle Beverages - San Antonio San Antonio Beverages, alcoholic (except F 4.9
Downtown Aquarium Houston Houston Aquariums D 4.9
Allen Allen 621498 All Other Outpatient D 4.9
Austin TX Yard Austin Other Building Material Deal D 4.9
Palmhurst Palmhurst Used merchandise stores D 4.9
Technical Chemical Company - Plant 1 Cleburne Brake fluid, synthetic, manu D 4.9
034-00142 Montgomery Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.9
034-00357 Conroe Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.9
Temple Machine Shop, Inc. Temple Hydraulic cylinders, fluid p D 4.9
8951 Rowlett Rowlett Home Centers D 4.9
Swy-0020-0020-03311 Fac-03311-Dallas-Tx Dallas Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.9
ABILENE_1352285 Abilene Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.9
HASLET_1366439 Haslet Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.9
Atwoods 26 Paris Retail Store D 4.9
HCA Houston Healthcare Conroe Conroe Hospitals, general medical a B 4.9
TRULITE GLASS AND ALUMINUM SOLUTIONS LLC - Houston Houston Glass Product Manufacturing D 4.9
Big Lots Store #4562 Harlingen, TX Harlingen Retail Other D 4.9
TX - Houston, 18500 Kieth Harrow Blvd Houston Cable and Other Subscription F 4.9
Edit TX, LLC (dba) Tide Cleaners - 10007 The Woodlands Cleaners, drycleaning and la F 4.9
80512-Sa Super Regional Whse San Antonio Grocery Stores C 4.9
2807-2468 Harlingen Homecenter D 4.9
OpusCare of Texas San Antonio Hospice care services, in ho C 4.9
147 Denison Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.9
5116 La Porte Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.9
Ross store 1305 Cedar Park Retail Store D 4.9
Power Tools : SVC-Dallas, TX USA Dallas - D 4.9
Encompass Health Richardson Richardson Rehabilitation hospitals (ex D 4.9
Location #4 Garland Metals service centers F 4.9
Tiff's Treats - A4 Austin Cookie Delivery Store D 4.9
TXH001 Houston Tire Dealers D 4.9
Wichita Falls TX FXFE-WFT Wichita Falls Less Than Truckload General C 4.9
6827 E Lubbock Lubbock Home Centers D 4.9
EPD, Inc. Angleton Vocational rehabilitation or D 4.9
Esco Plastics Company Magnolia Custom compounding (i.e., bl D 4.9
Wm 963 Weatherford Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.9
Wm 2239 San Antonio Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.9
Wm 8275 Beaumont - D 4.9
Refrigeration Vessels and Systems Corporation Bryan Refrigeration equipment, ind D 4.9
office Austin HVAC (heating, ventilation a D 4.9
AZZ Galvanizing - Houston Houston Hot dip galvanizing metals a D 4.9
Big Lots Store #1890 ARLINGTON, TX Arlington Retail Other D 4.9
Zarsky Lumber Co - Laredo Laredo Building materials supply de D 4.9
Gandy Ink San Angelo Scholarly journals screen pr D 4.9
2807-0505 Plano Homecenter D 4.9
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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.