General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Texas

Ben E Keith Foods

Selma, TX · ~487 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ben E Keith Foods runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ben E Keith Foods: 8.6 TCR = 390% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ben E Keith Foods safety composite

Ben E Keith Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ben E Keith Foods: 8.4 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2021

Ben E Keith Foods's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.4 in 2019 to 8.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Selma, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 390% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #98/123
  • PHOTO West Texas Food
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 157 inj
  • SIZE ~487 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Texas Food (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ben E Keith Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ben E Keith Foods averages 8.6 TCR (390% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ben E Keith Foods TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=8.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Ben E Keith Foods falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 123 General-line groceries merchan employers in Texas.

Ben E Keith Foods (487 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ben E Keith Foods
Ben E Keith Foods (487 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Ben E Keith Foods has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 8.8 7.8 57 0 0
2020 8.5 6.2 52 0 0
2019 8.4 6.0 48 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · TX · Selma

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 37 employers in Selma, 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 West Texas Food 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laredo warehouse # 1 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 817 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Y. Hata & Company, Ltd. 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AAON Coil Products Inc. 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plano Corporate Office 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE EURPAC - DALLAS, TX 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pemex Deer Park TX 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC36 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1006 - SELMA TX WHSE 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Selma 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greene Tweed Selma 209 FTE
NAT-TCR Pride Mobility Mississippi 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside Village 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pace 1 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Sarasota 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orange County 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4186-DC5 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Administration Building 487 FTE
NAT-SIZE NJ_Cranbury_18 487 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.