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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
Unit # 2338 Mesquite Retail B 2.7
Longhorn Dallas Dallas Industrial supplies (except D 2.7
Metallic Products Corporation Houston Warehouses, prefabricated me C 2.7
Division 22 Plano Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts D 2.7
CMC Southern Post Texas San Marcos Fences and gates (except wir C 2.7
FoodTown #204 Houston Grocery stores B 2.7
South Austin Store #2202 Austin Furniture stores (e.g., hous B 2.7
Caldwell Terminal Caldwell Trucking, specialized freigh B 2.7
Tiff's Treats - A6 Austin Cookie Delivery Store B 2.7
S02881 - WM Houston Metro Houston - C 2.7
Service Wire Company Houston Houston Copper products made by draw C 2.7
PAM Transport - Irving, TX Irving General freight trucking, lo B 2.7
Focused Care at Clarksville Clarksville Continuing care retirement c B 2.7
Tell Manufacturing Houston Houston Door locks, metal, manufactu C 2.7
RJ Schinner Branch 8 Grand Prairie Disposable plastics products D 2.7
Pinnacle Machine Holdings - Sheldon Rd Houston Fabricated pipe and pipe fit C 2.7
Empire Roofing Companies Inc.. Pflugerville Roofing contractors C 2.7
WOB facility Managemnt LLC Bartlett Skilled nursing facilities A 2.7
Wm 897 Fort Stockton - B 2.7
Thrift City Texas, LLC Richardson Thrift shops, used merchandi B 2.7
C&F Tool & Die Co., LLC San Antonio Machine shops C 2.7
HPN Administration Abilene MDs' (medical doctors, excep B 2.7
Taylor Publishing Co. Dallas Yearbook (e.g., high school, F 2.7
Quikrete - Hou2 Columbus Concrete Products Manufactur C 2.7
Tiff's Treats - A5 Austin Cookie Delivery Store B 2.7
Stonegate Ventures LLC Burleson Custom home builder B 2.7
060/ARLINGTON Arlington Homefurnishings stores B 2.7
Richardson #533 Richardson Pipe, metal, merchant wholes D 2.7
San Antonio CSC and San Ant Hospitals San Antonio General warehousing and stor A 2.7
Wilmer Terminal - DOT Wilmer Transportation Motor Freight B 2.7
Custom Building Products HOUC Katy Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Mi C 2.7
BP Helios Plaza Houston - B 2.7
Gainsborough Waste Houston Waste transfer stations, non C 2.7
San Antonio Biotest Plasma Center San Antonio Plasma Collection B 2.7
HTXKG01 Kilgore - C 2.7
6400-Swy 0020 3560 Dallas Supermarkets and Other Groce B 2.7
Rws Tx Dallas Mesquite Mesquite Habilitation job counseling B 2.7
855 American Construction Metals Houston Roofing, Siding, Sheetmetal C 2.7
CSC Transportation-Texas Houston Trucking, general freight, l B 2.7
Store #14 Newton Grocery stores B 2.6
Store #46 Cameron Grocery stores B 2.6
Store #92 Whitesboro Grocery stores B 2.6
Delta Centrifugal Corp. Temple Foundries, steel (except inv C 2.6
Sanderson Farms Palestine Hatchery Palestine Poultry Hatcheries B 2.6
TX/NM - Katy - 4364 Katy Ready-mix concrete manufactu C 2.6
Bill Doran LLC - Austin Austin Flowers merchant wholesalers D 2.6
Houston Branch Houston Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts D 2.6
Ptcr Garland Garland Truck tractor rental or leas D 2.6
Houston Metals Houston Manufacture of insulation me C 2.6
Clay Plaster and Stucco Mansfield Stucco contractors C 2.6
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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.