TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
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).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
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.
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.
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.
Texas'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 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.
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewell an Oldcastle company (Katy) | Katy | Dry mix concrete manufacturi | B | 1.8 |
| WTPS - Houston Material Handling | Houston | Marine cargo handling servic | A | 1.8 |
| Patterson Logistics Services 7 | Houston | Dental equipment and supplie | C | 1.8 |
| Flowserve BSC | Beaumont | Electric motor repair and ma | C | 1.8 |
| Ross store 1054 | Lake Jackson | Retail Store | B | 1.8 |
| Ross store 329 | Webster | Retail Store | B | 1.8 |
| Pearland Medical Center | Pearland | - | A | 1.8 |
| NDX Stern Empire | Houston | Dental Laboratories | B | 1.8 |
| Ecolab Garland | Garland | Detergents (e.g., dishwashin | B | 1.8 |
| 6902 Hwy. 66 | Greenville | Organo-inorganic compound ma | B | 1.8 |
| SPPAL Corporate | Dfw Airport | Belt conveyor systems manufa | B | 1.8 |
| DSE Hockey Club, L.P. | Frisco | Hockey clubs, professional o | B | 1.8 |
| 12480 | Houston | - | F | 1.8 |
| atlas | Diboll | Insulation and cushioning, f | B | 1.8 |
| Store #44 | Caldwell | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| PC Automated Controls, Inc. - El Paso, Texas | El Paso | Temperature control system i | B | 1.8 |
| Driscoll Health Systems | Corpus Christi | Children's hospitals, genera | A | 1.8 |
| Bray USA Houston Campus | Houston | Butterfly valves, industrial | B | 1.8 |
| Tex-Mix Old Manor | Austin | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.8 |
| Ruppert Landscape - Houston | Spring | Landscaping services (except | A | 1.8 |
| Round Rock TX Millwork | Round Rock | Custom Architectural Woodwor | B | 1.8 |
| WSC SAFB Food Service DH #1368 | Wichita Falls | Cafeteria food services cont | B | 1.8 |
| The Garick Group, Inc. | El Paso | Electrical contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Palmer Logistics Warehouse 12 (4111 Malone) | Pasadena | Bonded warehousing, general | A | 1.8 |
| Niagara Bottling, LLC - Temple | Temple | Beverages, naturally carbona | B | 1.8 |
| CenterPoint Energy - Sugar Land | Houston | Electric Services | D | 1.8 |
| CenterPoint Energy - Cypress | Cypress | Gas and Electric Utility | D | 1.8 |
| Darr Equipment LP | Irving | Forklift trucks (except log) | C | 1.8 |
| Ensign United States Drilling (S.W.) Inc. | Houston | Drilling gas and oil field w | C | 1.8 |
| Equipment Depot Texas, Inc. - Longview | Longview | Stackers, industrial, truck- | B | 1.8 |
| USA Feedyard LP | Gruver | Beef cattle feedlots (except | A | 1.8 |
| USA - Laredo, Bob Bullock Loop | Laredo | Freight Forwarding | A | 1.8 |
| CF Houston LLC. | Houston | Vegetables, cut or peeled, f | A | 1.8 |
| Keystone Concrete Placement San Antonio | Schertz | Foundation, building, poured | B | 1.8 |
| Dedicated Harbor Freight | Haslet | General Freight Trucking Lo | A | 1.8 |
| Elite Material Handling - Houston | Houston | Commercial and industrial ma | C | 1.8 |
| Topgolf San Antonio | San Antonio | Amusement and Recreation Ser | B | 1.8 |
| Fort Worth - 3000 Cantrell Sansom Road | Fort Worth | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.8 |
| Rosenberg Plant | Rosenberg | Other Snack Food Manufacturi | A | 1.8 |
| El Paso Cpa | El Paso | - | B | 1.8 |
| Miller Road | Houston | Precision turned product man | B | 1.8 |
| El Paso-Texas, TX - TPR | El Paso | Blood and Organ Banks | A | 1.8 |
| Southern Botanical Carrollton | Dallas | Garden maintenance services | A | 1.8 |
| Tob Knobs, USA | Irving | Cabinet hardware, metal, man | B | 1.8 |
| Big Lots Store #1859 Round Rock, TX | Round Rock | Retail Other | B | 1.8 |
| Nacogdoches Tx | Nacogdoches | - | B | 1.8 |
| Baylor Ambulatory Endoscopy Center | Plano | - | A | 1.8 |
| White Settlement Nursing Center | White Wettlement | Nursing homes | A | 1.8 |
| Burgess Specialty Fabricating | Houston | Sheet metal work (except sta | B | 1.8 |
| Heating and Hot Water Solutions LLC | Fort Worth | Boilers, heating, manufactur | B | 1.8 |
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.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (38,394 here).
Look up a Texas employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.