newspaper publishing · Texas

Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, TX · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brownsville Herald runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical newspaper publishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brownsville Herald: 1.2 TCR = 170% of newspaper publishing BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brownsville Herald safety composite

Brownsville Herald scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2016→2019

Brownsville Herald injury rate improved

Brownsville Herald's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Brownsville, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.2 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Lancaster Farming
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lancaster Farming (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brownsville Herald in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brownsville Herald averages 1.2 TCR (170% of the newspaper publishing BLS benchmark).

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

Brownsville Herald TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Brownsville Herald falls in its industry

61 newspaper publishing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 newspaper publishing employers in Texas.

Brownsville Herald (48 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Brownsville Herald
Brownsville Herald (48 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Brownsville Herald has fewer employees than the newspaper publishing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · TX · Brownsville

61 newspaper publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 155 employers in Brownsville, 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 Lancaster Farming 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Admin 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LNP Media Group, Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SAN ANTONIO SOD FARM 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPPORT SERVICES 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE WRANGLER FEED YARD 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kempenaar Dairy LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brownsville, TX 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-769 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Valley Regional Medical Center 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Regional Medical Center 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-NY/NJ District : SVC-Pine Brook NJ-USA 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5 North 11th Street 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bolingbrook - 1 Territorial Drive 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Com Plainsfield 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE George's Stone Spring Hatchery 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groc 3rd Shift 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Point Mugu_CA_NAWC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Natural Resources (23) 48 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: 2019, 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.