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 279 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELGIN_1362262 | Elgin | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.9 |
| Sodexo at Lubbock Isd Custodial | Lubbock | Facilities Support Services | D | 3.9 |
| TAYLOR | Taylor | Loading and unloading servic | C | 3.9 |
| TASUS Texas Corp. | Georgetown | Motor vehicle moldings and e | C | 3.9 |
| North Texas Health Care Laundry Cooperative Association | Grand Prairie | Apron supply services | D | 3.9 |
| 081-Lubbock/Slide Rd | Lubbock | Food (i.e., groceries) store | C | 3.9 |
| Katy: Waddell | Katy | Telecomunications | F | 3.9 |
| 2322 | Fort Worth | Automotive Dealers | C | 3.9 |
| 2497 | Corpus Christi | Automotive Dealers | C | 3.9 |
| Big Lots Store #1835 Austin, TX | Austin | Retail Other | C | 3.9 |
| 484100-Hockley Po | Hockley | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.9 |
| 4192-00051137-107524 | Laporte | Electrical Apparatus and Equ | D | 3.9 |
| STA-Terrell (TEX-740) | Terrell | School bus services | C | 3.9 |
| 6993-69930024-000004 | Desoto | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | C | 3.9 |
| 4272 West Houston Harte Expressway | San Angelo | Electrical contractors and o | D | 3.9 |
| DGS Aviation Services : AUS - Austin | Aus - Austin | Support Activities for Air T | C | 3.9 |
| Ross store 1270 | Laredo | Retail Store | C | 3.9 |
| Ameribolt Inc. Houston Location | Houston | Bolts, metal, manufacturing | C | 3.9 |
| Odessa TX | Penwell | Trucking, specialized freigh | C | 3.9 |
| Republic National Industries of Texas LP | Marshall | Bathroom vanities (except fr | C | 3.9 |
| Accel at Home DFW | Irving | Home care of elderly, medica | B | 3.9 |
| ELP | El Paso | General Freight Trucking | C | 3.9 |
| Spectrum Polymers | Mansfield | Plastics resins compounding | C | 3.9 |
| Nipco Inc - Odessa | Odessa | Electroplating metals and fo | C | 3.9 |
| Cox Paving of Texas | Blanco | Pavement, highway, road, str | D | 3.9 |
| Mueller Inc. | Willis | Buildings, prefabricated met | C | 3.9 |
| NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-3055 DISCOVERY BLVD | Rockwall | Transportation Warehousing L | C | 3.9 |
| 10115 Kirby | Houston | - | C | 3.9 |
| Richardson Tx | Richardson | Other Direct Selling Establi | C | 3.9 |
| 034-00264 | Pearland | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.9 |
| 034-00310 | Kingwood | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.9 |
| 035-00445 | Arlington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.9 |
| PSL-Parmer Woods | Austin | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.9 |
| Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria | Houston | - | D | 3.9 |
| Tropicale Foods Lubbock | Lubbock | Ice cream manufacturing | C | 3.9 |
| 19-TROUP | Troup | Florist's supplies merchant | D | 3.9 |
| Hatchery- Longview,TX | Longview | Chicken Egg Production | C | 3.9 |
| 0534 Katy | Katy | Home Centers | C | 3.9 |
| Magic Aire | Wichita Falls | Heating and air conditioning | C | 3.9 |
| Texas Insulation- Dallas | Dallas | Building insulation contract | D | 3.9 |
| Industrial Fabrics TX | Houston | Badges, fabric, manufacturin | C | 3.9 |
| PnP Dallas South Central | Dallas | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | D | 3.9 |
| 2807-2898 | San Antonio | Homecenter | C | 3.9 |
| 2807-0519 | Longview | Homecenter | C | 3.9 |
| 2807-1892 | Palestine | Homecenter | C | 3.9 |
| 2807-0651 | Webster | Homecenter | C | 3.9 |
| 7229 | El Paso | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.9 |
| 4186-04766 | Harlingen | Dollar Stores | C | 3.9 |
| 4769-6140-Williams Sonoma | Dallas | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | D | 3.9 |
| Architectural Granite and Marble Spicewood | Spicewood | Building materials, fibergla | D | 3.9 |
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.