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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.

Texas grade distribution 38,382 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Texas's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 91% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
508 - El Paso Northwest El Paso - C 2.8
Container Graphics Tx Irving Cutting dies, metalworking, C 2.8
486760-Palestine Po Palestine Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.8
634 634 Houston Houston Department Stores C 2.8
4795-Aa-Elp-El Paso-Elp-Trml El Paso Scheduled Air Transportation B 2.8
Txpasa-Opi-Pasadena 482 Pasadena PLASMA COLLECTION B 2.8
4186-03670 Little Elm Dollar Stores C 2.8
Doggett Truck Enterprises El Paso Commercial and industrial ma D 2.8
Sodexo at Univ of Mary Hardin-Baylor Belton Food Service Contractors C 2.8
Sodexo at Chi St Lukes Memorial-Lufkin Lufkin Food Service Contractors C 2.8
TXD Dallas Scientific laboratory equipm D 2.8
Villa Haven Health and Rehabilitation Breckenridge Nursing homes A 2.8
Medical /Surgical Hospital Kerrville General medical and surgical A 2.8
6400-Swy 0020 2557 Gainesville Supermarkets and Other Groce C 2.8
Courtyard Dallas Arlington South Arlington Hotels C 2.8
Advanced Lightning Technology, Ltd. Argyle Lightning protection equipme C 2.8
Pssi / Pilgrim'S Corp - Mt. Pleasant Kill Mt. Pleasant Building Maintenance Service B 2.8
Basler Electric Company - Taylor Taylor Power transformers, electric C 2.8
Dragon Products LaPorte Laporte Tank trailer, liquid and dry C 2.8
Bay City Bay City Air-conditioning equipment ( D 2.8
Waelder 2 Complex Waelder Egg production, chicken B 2.8
Bethesda Gardens Arlington Arlington Assisted-living facilities w B 2.8
Arlington Recycling Arlington Materials recovery facilitie C 2.8
Houston P Facility Houston Resins, plastics (except cus C 2.8
10140 Highland Park Highland Park - C 2.8
Ok Concrete Co Wichita Falls Ready-mix concrete manufactu C 2.8
035-00522 Plano Supermarkets and Other Groce C 2.8
6820 Brownwood Brownwood Home Centers C 2.8
Eberle Materials Inc. Donna Excavating, earthmoving, or C 2.8
Kfv - Brittmoore Houston General warehousing and stor A 2.8
Abs-0017-0016-02994 Fac-02994-El Paso-Tx El Paso Supermarkets and Other Groce C 2.8
HES K12 at DeSoto TX ISD Desoto - B 2.8
Lonestar Corrosion Services, Inc Houston Coating metals and metal pro C 2.8
National Presort, LLC Fort Worth Belt conveyor systems manufa C 2.8
393 Lubbock snack and nonalcoholic bever C 2.8
Wm 8280 El Paso - C 2.8
Fiesta # 31 Houston Grocery stores C 2.8
USM Store #552 (United) Lubbock Supermarket C 2.8
Coastal Bend Cooperative Gin Corpus Christi Cotton ginning B 2.8
361 - Carrollton Carrollton - C 2.8
Ole Mexican Foods, Grand Prairie Grand Prairie Tortillas manufacturing C 2.8
485205-Little Elm Po Little Elm Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.8
6284-Yr-557 Rx Laredo Freight Trucking LTL B 2.8
Chisholm Place Abilene CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C B 2.8
Fiesta # 49 Houston Grocery stores C 2.8
5673 Sachse Warehouse Clubs and Supercen C 2.8
8275 Beaumont Warehouse Clubs and Supercen C 2.8
Bed Bath and Beyond Humble Humble retailing new home furnishin C 2.8
Benedettini Cabinetry Rosenberg Cabinets, kitchen (except fr C 2.8
TLSTX - El Paso El Paso Commercial and industrial ma D 2.8
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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.

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.