TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Texas workplace safety
How 38,394 OSHA-reporting employers across Texas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 38,394
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 611,611
- Injuries (all)
- 542
- Fatalities (all)
Texas vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
38,394 2nd of 54 higher than 52 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Texas's 32,225 rated 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 · rated subset
- 32,225
- rated employers
- 38,394
- all reporting employers
- 611,611
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 38,394 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 22% B · 13% C · 30% D · 18% F · 17%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Texas is #6 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 32,225-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 32,225 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 42 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Metal Technologies, Inc. | Round Rock | Electroplating metals and fo | F | 11.2 |
| Store 0287 | Waco | General Merchandise Stores | F | 11.2 |
| Central Freight Lines - Waco | Waco | General freight trucking, lo | F | 11.2 |
| Houston HVC | Houston | Motor Vehicle Supplies and N | F | 11.1 |
| El Ahorro Supermarket #14, LLC | Houston | Grocery stores | F | 11.1 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04187 | Mesquite | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| Lubbock Center (Txlub) | Lubbock | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.1 |
| Spring Creek Village | Spring | Assisted Living | F | 11.1 |
| D & L Tooling, Inc. | Jacksonville | Clothes hangers, plastics, m | F | 11.1 |
| 4186-07159 | Brownsville | Dollar Stores | F | 11.1 |
| GLADEWATER_1364834 | Gladewater | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| 487665-Robstown Po | Robstown | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| Highland (Txaun) | Austin | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.1 |
| Brookdale Eden Estates | Bedford | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| Bethesda Gardens of Arlington | Arlington | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| TXE002 | El Paso | Tire Dealers | F | 11.1 |
| 4535-0080 | Irving | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 11.1 |
| Progreso LMMM Wichita Falls #1, LLC | Witchita Fallas | Delicatessens primarily reta | F | 11.1 |
| Jeff Luther Construction Co. | Abilene | Residential construction, si | F | 11.1 |
| Hydro Resources, MDC Sunray | Sunray | Water Well Drilling | F | 11.1 |
| Propak - Plainview, TX | Plainview | Wood Container and Pallet Ma | F | 11.1 |
| HIGHLANDER_1366949 | Waco | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| LQ0687 Galveston East Beach | Galveston | Hospitality | F | 11.1 |
| Miner - CDC Dallas | Dallas | Industrial equipment and mac | F | 11.1 |
| Farmers Cooperative Association Stanton | Stanton | Cotton ginning | F | 11.1 |
| Taylor Press Products | Jarrell | Job stampings, automotive, m | F | 11.1 |
| Logistics Center of La Porte | La Porte | Building stone merchant whol | F | 11.1 |
| Service 5213 | Arlington | Miscellaneous Retail Stores | F | 11.1 |
| 480128-Hou-M L King | Houston | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| ABC Supply 038 | San Antonio | Roofing, Siding and Insulati | F | 11.1 |
| 1004 - Fort Worth | Fort Worth | Valves, plumbing and heating | F | 11.1 |
| Port | Corpus Christi | Used merchandise stores | F | 11.1 |
| Txluf - Lufkin | Lufkin | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 11.1 |
| TXS007 | Leon Valley | Tire Dealers | F | 11.1 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04277 | Fort Worth | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| Txmid - Midland | Midland | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 11.1 |
| Dallas SDO | Coppell | Express delivery services (e | D | 11.1 |
| Lufkin (Txluf) | Lufkin | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.1 |
| Weir's Furniture Village, Inc. - Plano | Plano | Furniture and appliance stor | F | 11.1 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04223 | Fort Worth | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| Ross store 334 | Houston | Retail Store | F | 11.1 |
| Portland | Portland | Used merchandise stores | F | 11.1 |
| Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ N. Mesa | El Paso | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 11.1 |
| 20440 Houston(MoCity) | Missouri City | Bus operation, school and em | F | 11.1 |
| ARLINGTON_1353344 | Arlington | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| 80717-Floral Rsc-Sa | San Antonio | Grocery Stores | D | 11.1 |
| Bethesda Gardens | Frisco | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| Henson Lumber, Ltd. | Cresson | Flooring, wood, merchant who | F | 11.1 |
| HG431 | Sugarland | Homefurnishings stores | F | 11.1 |
| DCC : 5917-00 VW-BHC-DCC/Ft Worth, TX | Fort Worth | Transportation | F | 11.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Texas: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (38,394 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.