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 329 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omni Fort Worth Hotel | Fort Worth | Hospitality | C | 3.3 |
| Harlingen Tx - 841 | Harlingen | Industrial Launderers | D | 3.3 |
| Store 17 | Austin | Used Merchandise | C | 3.3 |
| Wm 5245 | San Antonio | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.3 |
| Command Tubular Products | Spring | Drilling equipment, oil and | C | 3.3 |
| Travis Millwork, Inc., Manor, Texas | Manor | Custom architectural millwor | C | 3.3 |
| Pentagon Technologies Austin TX | Austin | Cleaning and descaling metal | C | 3.3 |
| Unit #1958 | Beaumont | Retail | C | 3.3 |
| United Gin Corporation | Lamesa | Cotton ginning | B | 3.3 |
| 2807-0563 | Spring | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| MFE044 | Mcallen | Airports, Flying Fields & Se | B | 3.3 |
| T107 | San Antonio | Automobile carrier trucking, | B | 3.3 |
| 019 Texas Health Frisco | Frisco | General medical and surgical | A | 3.3 |
| Sterling Home Technologies Inc. | Boerne | Audio equipment installation | C | 3.3 |
| Sodexo at Mckesson | Irving | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.3 |
| Store #605 | Tyler | Supermarkets | C | 3.3 |
| DHMS - Pharr | San Juan | Commercial and industrial ma | D | 3.3 |
| K256-M002 | Irving | Beverages, naturally carbona | C | 3.3 |
| 1617 Old Temple Rd - Lorena | Hewitt | Construction management, hig | C | 3.3 |
| Don Mcgill Toyota of Katy | Katy | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.3 |
| Yoakum Packing Co | Yoakum | Processed meats manufacturin | C | 3.3 |
| VRS North Austin, TX | Austin | Translation & Interpretation | F | 3.3 |
| 1033 Abilene, Tx | Abilene | Family Clothing Stores | C | 3.3 |
| Txfwhb-Opi-Fort Worth-Hulen Bend | Fort Worth | PLASMA COLLECTION | C | 3.3 |
| CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth Hospital | Beaumont | - | B | 3.3 |
| ASI Dallas Plant | Dallas | Countertops, stone, manufact | C | 3.3 |
| EPC Wichita Falls | Wichita Falls | Bags, paper and disposable p | D | 3.3 |
| Ethan Allen Design Center - Dallas TX | Dallas | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | C | 3.3 |
| 6903 Houston Millwork | Houston | Lumber/Plywood/Millwork/Wood | D | 3.3 |
| Earle M. Jorgensen Company Dallas | Dallas | Metals service centers | D | 3.3 |
| Overton Healthcare Center | Overton | healthcare facility | C | 3.3 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-N | Dallas | food and beverage management | C | 3.3 |
| DAL | Irving | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.3 |
| Restaurant Depot 575 | Richardson | General Line Groceries Merch | D | 3.3 |
| Ft. Worth 419 | Ft Worth | Plasmapheresis collection | C | 3.3 |
| Ergon Trucking, Inc. - Channelview | Channelview | Trucking, specialized freigh | B | 3.3 |
| Brookdale Meridian Temple | Temple | Retirement homes without nur | C | 3.3 |
| Surface : RLS - Manufacturing Buck Creek, Lufkin, Texas | Lufkin | - | C | 3.3 |
| 18390001--Fedex Afw Labor | Fort Worth | - | B | 3.3 |
| Republic Plastics, Ltd. (TX) | Mcqueeney | Dinnerware, polystyrene foam | C | 3.3 |
| Store #40 | Brookshire | Grocery stores | C | 3.3 |
| Texas Children's Hospital | Houston | Children's hospitals, genera | A | 3.3 |
| 1812 - Bee Cave | Bee Cave | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.3 |
| Specialized Response Solutions, L.P. | Fort Worth | Environmental remediation se | D | 3.3 |
| Chefs' Produce Dallas Inc | Dallas | Produce, fresh, merchant who | D | 3.3 |
| 034-00115 | Cypress | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| Shortwood TX Truss | Henderson | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | C | 3.3 |
| FedEx 6552 BOB BULLOCK LOOP | Laredo | Courier and Express Delivery | B | 3.3 |
| 2878 Lowe S of S. Mckinney Tx | Mckinney | Homecenter | C | 3.3 |
| Sutton County Hospital District | Sonora | Rural Hospital District | A | 3.3 |
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.