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 256 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ft Worth Purina Distribution Center | Ft. Worth | Distribution Center - Animal | B | 4.3 |
| 546 | Richmond | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| 484191-Hum-Kingwood Sta | Kingwood | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.3 |
| 43813 - Ft Worth Fac | Ft Worth | Confectionery Merchant Whole | D | 4.3 |
| Ross store 1318 | New Braunfels | Retail Store | D | 4.3 |
| Ross store 609 | Spring | Retail Store | D | 4.3 |
| Shamrock Ind. | Ft. Worth | Aluminum die-castings, unfin | D | 4.3 |
| 99 Ranch Market 105 | Carrollton | Supermarket | D | 4.3 |
| 0257 - Brownsville, Tx | Brownsville | Retail Stores | D | 4.3 |
| Hurst Terminal | Hurst | Calcium hydroxide (i.e., hyd | D | 4.3 |
| H.E. Wright & Co., Inc. | Texarkana | Addition, alteration and ren | D | 4.3 |
| FoodTown #007 | Houston | Grocery stores | D | 4.3 |
| Dallas North | Dallas | Truck tractor rental or leas | F | 4.3 |
| Broadmoor Medical Lodge | Rockwall | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.3 |
| 0095 - Austin North | Austin | Discount Department Stores | D | 4.3 |
| 2572 - Mesquite | Mesquite | Discount Department Stores | D | 4.3 |
| Republic Services of San Antonio, Allied Waste Division | San Antonio | Refuse collection services | D | 4.3 |
| CSG Fort Worth DDC | Fort Worth | Commercial printing (except | D | 4.3 |
| 034-00314 | Houston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| H&B Packing Co. Inc | Waco | Animal fats (except poultry | D | 4.3 |
| Store 7589 - Garland TX - Sout | Garland | Automotive Parts | D | 4.3 |
| Swy-0020-0023-02482 Fac-02482-Austin-Tx | Austin | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center | Richmond | Nursing homes | B | 4.3 |
| Nexion Health | Lampasas | Nursing Care Facility | B | 4.3 |
| Whispering Pines Lodge | Longview | Nursing homes | B | 4.3 |
| 242 Houston (Dacoma) | Houston | Retail | D | 4.3 |
| 070-El Paso/Viscount | El Paso | Food (i.e., groceries) store | D | 4.3 |
| L&S Plumbing Partnership, Ltd. d/b/a L&S Mechanical - Austin Location | Pflugerville | Plumbing and heating contrac | D | 4.3 |
| Fiesta # 69 | Fort Worth | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| 2807-1515 | Conroe | Homecenter | D | 4.3 |
| Ft Worth 7013 | Ft Worth | Home Health Care | C | 4.3 |
| 1117 | Plano | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| Ni30-Sbaii-Embassy Suites Amarillo | Amarillo | HOSPITALITY | D | 4.3 |
| 2288-0878 | Pearland | Structural Pest Control | C | 4.3 |
| Vista Quality - Doniphan | El Paso | Grocery stores | D | 4.3 |
| Sam Rayburn Tollway East | The Colony | Construction management, hig | D | 4.3 |
| 4238-260 | Robstown | Facilities Support Services | D | 4.3 |
| The Olive | Dallas | Foundation, building, poured | D | 4.3 |
| Ross store 1039 | San Antonio | Retail Store | D | 4.3 |
| Unit #2105 | Greenville | Retail | D | 4.3 |
| Midland Terminal | Midland | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.3 |
| Distinctive Doors Inc | Wylie | Manufacturing building const | D | 4.3 |
| Organ Procurement Organization | Houston | Organ donor centers, body | C | 4.3 |
| Columbia Packing Co, Inc | Dallas | Fresh meats merchant wholesa | D | 4.3 |
| Manor Park, Inc. | Midland | Continuing care retirement c | C | 4.3 |
| Craig Godwin Inc DBA United Machine Works | New Waverly | Drilling equipment, oil and | D | 4.3 |
| Converse | Converse | Assembly plants, heavy truck | D | 4.3 |
| Tipton Motors Inc. | Brownsville | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 4.3 |
| Fossil Rim Wildlife Center | Glen Rose | Wildlife sanctuaries | D | 4.3 |
| Westside Operations Center | El Paso | Distribution of electric pow | F | 4.3 |
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.