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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 640 of 768| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Office | La Porte | Electric power control panel | A | 0.1 |
| Tellepsen Industrial | Pasadena | Construction management, dam | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate Campus | Houston | Automobile merchant wholesal | A | 0.1 |
| Turner at Olin Corporation Freeport TX | Freeport | - | A | 0.1 |
| Oncor Woodall Rodgers | Dallas | Transmission of electric pow | A | 0.1 |
| Powell Electrical Systems Inc. | Houston | Air circuit breakers manufac | A | 0.1 |
| HydroChem LLC-CCX | Corpus Christi | Industrial Cleaning | A | 0.1 |
| DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC, Expressway site | Dallas | Infrared sensors, solid-stat | A | 0.1 |
| C1628 - ETP - Ethane Export | Nederland | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 0.1 |
| CORPORATE-OTHER | Houston | General-line groceries merch | A | 0.1 |
| Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Socorro | Socorro | Thrift shops, used merchandi | A | 0.1 |
| Three Rivers | Three Rivers | Metals service centers | A | 0.1 |
| Nexeo Solutions - The Woodlands | The Woodlands | Chemicals (except agricultur | A | 0.1 |
| C1554 - Enterprise - Frac IX | Mt. Belvieu | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 0.1 |
| JFSNA at ExxonMobil Baytown Complex | Baytown | Refinery, petroleum, constru | A | 0.1 |
| Elkhorn Construction, West Texas Service Area | Seminole | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate | Houston | Home health care agencies | A | 0.1 |
| Cytec Engineered Materials, Inc. | Greenville | Tapes, varnished and coated | A | 0.1 |
| Midland Office | Midland | Crude petroleum production | A | 0.1 |
| Provident General Contractors | Dallas | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.1 |
| 5468-Longview Power | Temple | - | A | 0.1 |
| Burrow Global Construction, LLC | Deer Park | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| AXIOS Deer Park | Deer Park | Scaffold erecting and disman | A | 0.1 |
| ESAB Denton | Denton | Welding and Soldering Equipm | A | 0.1 |
| Shell Chemical LP Deer Park TX | Deer Park | - | A | 0.1 |
| Ericsson, Inc | Plano | VoIP service providers, usin | A | 0.1 |
| Dickey's Arena Ft Worth | Fort Worth | Stage set (e.g., concert, mo | A | 0.1 |
| Applied Consultants, Inc. | Longview | Oil well logging on a contra | A | 0.1 |
| Axiom Space | Houston | Guided missile and space veh | A | 0.1 |
| Air Resources Americas, LLC | Houston | Manpower pools | A | 0.1 |
| OIS-Port Arthur | Port Arthur | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| Lyondell Basell CVO N | Channelview | Other Heavy and Civil Engine | A | 0.1 |
| Balfour Beatty US | Dallas | Commercial building construc | A | 0.1 |
| 4039-00000500-00W001 | Kingwood | Professional Employer Organi | A | 0.1 |
| OIS-Corpus Christi | Corpus Christi | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| DLLSTXCA - AT&T Services, Inc. | Irving | Wired Telecommunications Car | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate (and other non-field Business Units) | Spring | Marine surveyor (i.e., ship | A | 0.1 |
| C1681 - Enterprise - Frac XI | Mt. Belvieu | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 0.1 |
| WCFLTXKQ | Wichita Falls | Wireless Telecommunications | A | 0.1 |
| Evergreen Industrial Services - Texas City | Texas City | Tank lining contractors | A | 0.1 |
| TTI- Houston Corporate | Houston | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 0.1 |
| Chaparral Industrial Services | Humble | Scaffold erecting and disman | A | 0.1 |
| Newtron Beaumont, LLC | Nederland | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 0.1 |
| APA Corporation | Houston | Oil and gas field exploratio | A | 0.1 |
| Emerson Process Management Crossridge Facility | Houston | Actuators, fluid power, manu | A | 0.1 |
| Flint Hills Resources - East Plant | Corpus Christi | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.1 |
| C1720 - Stephan Gemini | Pasadena | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 0.1 |
| S08938 - WM Call Centers | Houston | - | A | 0.1 |
| Network Cabling Services, Inc. | Houston | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 0.1 |
| Ernest Health Holdings, LLC | Mesquite | Corporate offices | A | 0.1 |
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.