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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)
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.
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.
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 634 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSC Group | Pasadena | Marine cargo handling servic | A | 0.2 |
| Ft Worth TX Truss | Fort Worth | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | A | 0.2 |
| F.A. Peinado, LLC | Frisco | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| Allied Reliability, Inc | Houston | Electrical engineering servi | A | 0.2 |
| Sequoias Tree Expert LLC | Houston | Tree and brush trimming, ove | A | 0.2 |
| Brunel Energy Inc. | Houston | Temporary help services | A | 0.2 |
| Battleground Manufacturing Complex | La Porte | Polyethylene resins manufact | A | 0.2 |
| BrandSafway LLC - Motiva Refinery - Port Arthur | Port Arthur | Specialty Trade Contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Merichem Process Technologies | Houston | Fabricated plate work manufa | A | 0.2 |
| Albemarle | Pasadena | Sodium aluminate manufacturi | A | 0.2 |
| OIS-Deer Park | Deer Park | Construction management, oil | A | 0.2 |
| IPC Industries, LP | Santa Fe | Coating metals and metal pro | A | 0.2 |
| VLS Marine Services Port Aurthur | Port Arthur | Barge Repair | A | 0.2 |
| TURN 2 Specialty Companies | La Porte | Underpinning, construction | A | 0.2 |
| TX008 | Houston | Computer software publishing | A | 0.2 |
| Service Center Operations : 0G10 | San Antonio | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | A | 0.2 |
| Diamond Food Corp | Azle | Corporate offices | A | 0.2 |
| Tucker Energy Solutions | Pasadena | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.2 |
| NXP USA Inc. - Oak Hill | Austin | Semiconductor devices manufa | A | 0.2 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific- Austin | Austin | Acidity (i.e., pH) measuring | A | 0.2 |
| Matagorda - MTO | Bay City | Polyethylene resins manufact | A | 0.2 |
| Customized - TX - 0805 | Mckinney | - | A | 0.2 |
| Nalco Champion - Corsicana | Corsicana | Fatty acid esters and amines | A | 0.2 |
| Valero Energy Partners LP | San Antonio | Oil, petroleum, bulk station | A | 0.2 |
| Central Texas Region | San Antonio | Natural gas pipeline transpo | A | 0.2 |
| Downstream Technology Solutions : CS - Houston, TX (MFG) | Houston | - | A | 0.2 |
| KMC Corporate Office | Bryan | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | A | 0.2 |
| Satterfield and Pontikes Construction | Houston | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| Total Industrial Services Specialties, Inc. | Houston | Millwrights | A | 0.2 |
| Houston Refining LP | Houston | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.2 |
| BASF | Bishop | Enzyme proteins (i.e., basic | A | 0.2 |
| Formosa Plastics Corporation Point Comfort TX | Point Comfort | - | A | 0.2 |
| Iscar Metals Inc. | Arlington | Machine tools and accessorie | A | 0.2 |
| Stewart Builders/Keystone Concrete Placement/Keystone Sitework | Houston | Foundation, building, poured | A | 0.2 |
| Whitley Penn LLP - Fort Worth | Fort Worth | Accounting (i.e., CPAs) serv | A | 0.2 |
| Corporate | Dallas | - | A | 0.2 |
| Capco Contractors | Henderson | Pipeline, gas and oil, const | A | 0.2 |
| BrandSafway LLC - ExxonMobil Chemical - Baytown | Baytown | Specialty Trade Contractor | A | 0.2 |
| James Construction Group LLC -Houston, Tx | Houston | Construction management, hig | A | 0.2 |
| Fugro USA Holdings, Inc. | Houston | Engineering services | A | 0.2 |
| Dataone Systems | Dallas | Fiber optic cable made from | A | 0.2 |
| Girling Community Care - Bellaire | Bellaire | Baths, steam or turkish | A | 0.2 |
| Worley Field Services at ExxonMobil BCEP Project | Baytown | Construction management, ind | A | 0.2 |
| DLLSTX18 | Dallas | - | A | 0.2 |
| PLANTXHS | Plano | - | A | 0.2 |
| Bobcat Heavy Civil | Lorena | Transformer station and subs | A | 0.2 |
| Wolfenson Houston | Houston | Electrical contractors | A | 0.2 |
| 4795-Ea-Dfw-Dallas Fort Worth-Dfw-Aehg | Dfw Airport | Scheduled passenger air tran | A | 0.2 |
| ChevronPhillips Sweeny TX - BSL | Sweeny | Multi Craft | A | 0.2 |
| Texas | Irving | Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dea | A | 0.2 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.
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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.