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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
4021-000008049 Richardson Food Services C 2.7
Houston MRF Houston Materials recovery facilitie C 2.7
Brownsville Brownsvills Hearing aids, electronic, ma C 2.7
Sandy Fork Harwood Egg production, chicken B 2.7
Store #036 Whitney Supermarkets B 2.7
Edgewood Rehab Care Center Mesquite Skilled nursing facilities A 2.7
Aberle Plumbing, LLC Houston Plumbers C 2.7
Refresco - Fort Worth, TX Fort Worth Beverages, soft drink (inclu C 2.7
Food Safety Net Services, Ltd. - San Antonio Lab San Antonio Food testing laboratories or F 2.7
Ross store 2046 Midlothian Retail Store B 2.7
Oncor Electric Delivery Distribution Operations Western Region Dallas Transmission of electric pow F 2.7
Action Wrecker Service, Inc. - Midland Midland Wrecker services (i.e., towi B 2.7
TSI Laboratories, Inc. Victoria Acoustics testing laboratori F 2.7
Garrett Mechanical Inc. Bryan Plumbing and heating contrac C 2.7
Mesa Airlines-IAH Houston Passenger air transportation B 2.7
Dart Warehouse Corporation - DFW Grand Prairie Public warehousing and stora A 2.7
Central Hardwood Specialties Dallas Flooring, wood, merchant who D 2.7
Bridgeway Animal Clinic Montgomery Veterinary clinics F 2.7
M&F Litteken Wichita Falls Addition, alteration and ren C 2.7
S04519 - WM of SE Texas - Victoria Victoria - C 2.7
Violet Gin & Grain Co., Inc Robstown Cotton ginning B 2.7
10574 Woodlands The Woodlands - B 2.7
Valfair Construction Forney Grading construction sites C 2.7
Focused Care at Cedar Bayou Baytown Retirement communities, cont B 2.7
Hawkins Service Center El Paso Distribution of electric pow F 2.7
Conrad Orange Orange Barge building C 2.7
Red River Brick Athens Athens Bricks (i.e., common, face, C 2.7
034-00392 Richmond Supermarkets and Other Groce B 2.7
LUBBOCK_1441188 Lubbock Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.7
Martin Foods, L.P. Houston Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke C 2.7
Audi Dominion San Antonio New car dealers B 2.7
527 Katy Fry Road Houston Department Store B 2.7
0f77 - Dallas Fire Arlington Plumbing, Heating and Air-Co C 2.7
Big Lots Store #1462 MCKINNEY, TX Mckinney Retail Other B 2.7
Skyland Grain, LLC- Sunray Sunray Grain elevators merchant who D 2.7
Dallas Tx (Gatorade) Dallas Soft Drink Manufacturing C 2.7
Delta Steel Inc. Houston Steel merchant wholesalers D 2.7
40262 - Capstone Aldi Denton Denton General warehousing and stor A 2.7
5827 Dallas TX Fort Worth Packaging Distribution D 2.7
FSTI Greenville Greenville Sodium hypochlorite manufact C 2.7
4021-000016443 Temple Food Services C 2.7
6340-IRBY-001022_US_S0585 Fort Worth - D 2.7
43411f - San Antonio Zone San Antonio Confectionery Merchant Whole D 2.7
Wichita Falls TX OC Wichita Falls Weaving broadwoven fabrics ( C 2.7
Rio Grande Medical Center Mcallen - B 2.7
Bartlett Cocke General Contractors (North Texas Region) Fort Worth Commercial building construc C 2.7
4113-41131003-R29 Corpus Christi Coin Laundry Route Business D 2.7
Texas Timber Frames Boerne Buildings, prefabricated, wo C 2.7
Sunvison Electric Inc. Pflugerville Electric contracting C 2.7
Bombardier Transportation - Dallas - DFW Dfw Airport Airport transit systems oper B 2.7
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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.