Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Action Meat Distributors, Inc

Houston, TX · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Action Meat Distributors, Inc runs at 562% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Action Meat Distributors, Inc: 12.4 TCR = 562% of Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Action Meat Distributors, Inc safety composite

Action Meat Distributors, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Action Meat Distributors, Inc held a steady TCR band

Action Meat Distributors, Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 12.4 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.4 · 2018=12.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 562% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO T J Meat Packing Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T J Meat Packing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Action Meat Distributors, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Action Meat Distributors, Inc averages 12.4 TCR (562% of the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Action Meat Distributors, Inc TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2018=12.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Action Meat Distributors, Inc falls in its industry

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa employers in Texas.

Action Meat Distributors, Inc (70 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Action Meat Distributors, Inc
Action Meat Distributors, Inc (70 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Action Meat Distributors, Inc has more employees than the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 12.4 9.6 9 0 0
2016 12.4 12.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · TX · Houston

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR T J Meat Packing Inc 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CEDI Dallas 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manchester Packing Co., Vernon 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR K. Heeps, LLC 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sales-OOS 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Farms 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE GP 176/GP 178 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Angelo 1214 Gas Plant Rd, San Angelo, TX 76904 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Worlds of Fun (Cedar Fair, LP, ET AL ID# 29-178536106-8) 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Des Moines - 507 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillside Center DE 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dsd1 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Waste, LLC - West Columbia, Sc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gruber Industries, Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE James River Work Center 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of South Hampton LLC 70 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.