Texas Mutual Reports Nearly 6% Increase in Severe Injuries in 2023

Texas Mutual saw nearly 6% more severe injuries reported in 2023 compared with the previous year.

That’s from an incident trends report released by the insurer.

The report shows the construction industry reported the most serious incidents by industry in Texas last year, accounting for 39% of the reported serious incidents. That’s more than triple the number of reported claims of any other industry.

Three construction specific industries reported the largest increase in claims. They are:

• All other specialty trade contractors (133% increase)
• Oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction (175% increase)
• Power and communication line and related structures construction (500% increase)

Texas Mutual reported 150% more electrocution-related claims in the construction industry in 2023, the report shows.

Texas Mutual shared 2023 serious workplace injury trends based on catastrophic injuries and fatalities reported to the insurer’s claims department. Serious claims data includes catastrophic injuries and fatalities reported to Texas Mutual, some of which may have been deemed as non-compensable at a later date and were not covered by workers’ compensation.

Mining and administrative, support, waste management & remediation services each accounted for 11% of serious incidents, followed by manufacturing (7%), and transportation & warehousing (5%) and agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%). All other industries had 22% of serious incidents, the report shows.