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 33 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannibal South | Houston | Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, l | F | 12.2 |
| Austin Air Rescue, LLC - Austin | Austin | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 12.1 |
| Regal Shortstop Logistics | Arlington | Delivery service (except as | F | 12.1 |
| Wm 3381 | Sweetwater | - | F | 12.1 |
| 487961-Sat-Highland Hills Sta | San Antonio | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.1 |
| LQ0907 Austin Capitol / Downtown | Austin | Hospitality | F | 12.1 |
| 787280000 | Austin | Transportation Air Cargo | D | 12.1 |
| TXD074 | Cleburne | Tire Dealers | F | 12.1 |
| Metalmax Waco | Waco | Sheet metal work (except sta | F | 12.1 |
| Royal Chemical | Dallas | Bar soaps manufacturing | F | 12.1 |
| Michaels Distribution Center #1821 | Fort Worth | Warehousing and storage, gen | F | 12.1 |
| River Oaks_1379441 | Houston | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.1 |
| City House Inc | Plano | - | F | 12.1 |
| GM Arlington Assembly | Arlington | Assembly plants, light truck | F | 12.1 |
| Caraday of Corpus Christi | Corpus Christi | Nursing homes | D | 12.1 |
| FedEx 7802 N CEDAR ST RAMP | Lubbock | Courier and Express Delivery | D | 12.1 |
| Tmx2527 - Fort Worth North | Arlington | - | F | 12.1 |
| Keysteel Corp | New Caney | Mesh, wire, made in iron and | F | 12.1 |
| Big Lots Store #4750 Portland, TX | Portland | Retail Other | F | 12.1 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hopsital of Abilene | Abilene | Physical rehabilitation hosp | F | 12.1 |
| 760600000 Dallas | Dallas | Food Services | F | 12.1 |
| Goodwill - Bell Street | Amarillo | Used merchandise stores | F | 12.1 |
| Ellis County Operations | Red Oak | Medical Transport | F | 12.1 |
| Tuff Shed Store 390 - Austin - SC | Buda | Manufacturing | F | 12.1 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children - Galveston | Galveston | General medical and surgical | D | 12.1 |
| Durrsett Amigos | San Antonio | Tortillas manufacturing | F | 12.1 |
| 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02580 | Southlake | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 12.1 |
| Retama Manor Nursing Center/Pleasanton North | Pleasanton North | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.1 |
| Ross store 1532 | Windcrest | Retail Store | F | 12.1 |
| Lakefield Veterinary Group - 134 | Houston | Veterinary Services | F | 12.1 |
| 2237 - Mission | Mission | Discount Department Stores | F | 12.1 |
| Courier's Pro | Plano | Delivery service (except as | F | 12.1 |
| HG854 | Laredo | Homefurnishings stores | F | 12.1 |
| Dependable Fence & Welding INC | Von Ormy | Artificial turf installation | F | 12.1 |
| Bobcat of Dallas- Fort Worth | Fort Worth | Construction machinery and e | F | 12.1 |
| 1003 - Carrollton | Carrollton | Valves, plumbing and heating | F | 12.1 |
| Lmmm Austin #6, Ltd. | Austin | Grocery stores | F | 12.1 |
| 6400-SWY-0020-0023-04033 | Houston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 12.1 |
| 343 San Antonio, Tx | San Antonio | Family Clothing Stores | F | 12.1 |
| Seacliff Seafoods | San Antonio | Fish manufacturing | F | 12.1 |
| 4795-Ea-Lbb-Lubbock-Eagle Acs | Lubbock | Scheduled Air Service | F | 12.1 |
| CEDI Dallas | Coppell | Meat and meat prod merch who | F | 12.0 |
| 10284 | Austin | Senior Living | F | 12.0 |
| 583 | Nacogdoches | Automotive Parts and Accesso | F | 12.0 |
| Store 0338 | Mineral Wells | General Merchandise Stores | F | 12.0 |
| Jordan Wire Rope | Odessa | Pipe, metal, merchant wholes | F | 12.0 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04267 | Watauga | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 12.0 |
| Stonefield | Mckinney | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.0 |
| WIC Carrollton | Carrollton | Containers, wood, manufactur | F | 12.0 |
| Coolsys SAO | San Antonio | Commercial refrigeration sys | F | 12.0 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Related
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.
- Look up a specific Texas employer rather than relying on the state average. Look up an employer
- Compare this state against the rest of the country. All states
- Understand what the average TCR actually measures before you read it. Understand the rates
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.