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 353 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ross store 880 | Weatherford | Retail Store | C | 3.0 |
| Methdosit Hospitals of Dallas | Dallas | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.0 |
| 6209 | Houston | Metal heat treating | C | 3.0 |
| Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas | Beaumont | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.0 |
| MDG Masonry LLC | Arlington | Bricklaying contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Texas QCC | Grand Prairie | Doughs, refrigerated or froz | C | 3.0 |
| Fort Worth Hvc | Fort Worth | Motor Vehicle Supplies and n | D | 3.0 |
| 386 | Tyler | Automotive Parts and Accesso | C | 3.0 |
| Advantage Tank Lines 20196 Dallas | Irving | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | B | 3.0 |
| International Paper - McAllen Container | Mcallen | Boxes, corrugated and solid | C | 3.0 |
| Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77MIS | Missouri City | - | C | 3.0 |
| CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital Tyler - EVS | Tyler | - | B | 3.0 |
| Athens Svc Ctr | Athens | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.0 |
| Victoria - Houston Hwy | Victoria | Used merchandise stores | C | 3.0 |
| Midland 250 | Midland | Vocational Rehabilitation Se | B | 3.0 |
| TMX2331 | Houston | EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR | B | 3.0 |
| 195-DC035 | Keller | General Warehouse and Storag | B | 3.0 |
| 5859 Conroe Fdcbdc | Conroe | General Warehousing and Stor | B | 3.0 |
| Groesbeck Skilled Care, LLC | Groesbeck | Nursing homes | A | 3.0 |
| STR0297 | Lufkin | Department stores except dis | C | 3.0 |
| El Paso_1441185 | El Paso | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.0 |
| Ilsco Corporation Brownsville | Brownsville | Lamp sockets and receptacles | C | 3.0 |
| Lubbock Texas | Lubbock | Mobile home towing services, | B | 3.0 |
| Houston Gallery | Houston | Furniture Stores | C | 3.0 |
| Texas Book Company | Greenville | General merchandise, nondura | D | 3.0 |
| USM Store #578 (United) | Clyde | Supermarket | C | 3.0 |
| Unit #0702 | El Paso | Retail | C | 3.0 |
| 8418 Four Points W Austin | Austin | Home Centers | C | 3.0 |
| The Medical Lodge of Amarillo | Amarillo | Convalescent homes or conval | A | 3.0 |
| 487085-Pittsburg Po | Pittsburg | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.0 |
| Focused Care at Baytown | Baytown | Nursing homes | A | 3.0 |
| Probe | Fort Worth | Well logging equipment manuf | C | 3.0 |
| Tubular Steel | Katy | Metals service centers | D | 3.0 |
| 4021-400222100 | Mathis | Food Services | C | 3.0 |
| 4021-400341300 | Bishop | Food Services | C | 3.0 |
| 7681 - 2-Flowma | Houston | Metal Service Centers and Ot | D | 3.0 |
| Branch 350 - PMI | Houston | Industrial supplies (except | D | 3.0 |
| Madison Construction, LP | Bryan | Commercial building construc | C | 3.0 |
| Corporate | Elgin | Furniture, laboratory-type ( | C | 3.0 |
| Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 175 | Sherman | Department stores (except di | C | 3.0 |
| Frienship Haven Healthcare | Friendswoods | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 3.0 |
| Gutier LLC | Sugar Land | Low slope roofing installati | C | 3.0 |
| CCW - Terrell | Terrell | Roofing felts made from purc | C | 3.0 |
| Standard Paints - Prestain | Alvarado | Architectural coatings (i.e. | C | 3.0 |
| 9271 | Dallas | Optical Instrument and Lens | C | 3.0 |
| 4535-1562 | Southlake | Retail/Home Furnishings | C | 3.0 |
| Horizon Tech | Fort Worthy | Precision turned product man | C | 3.0 |
| Hanon El Paso Distribution Center | El Paso | Air-conditioners, motor vehi | B | 3.0 |
| 6400-Swy 0020 2642 | Dallas | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.0 |
| Sodexo at Tenet Tx Reg Med Ctr Fans | Sunnyvale | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.0 |
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.