Pickling fruits and vegetables · Texas

Bruce Foods Corp

El Paso, TX · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bruce Foods Corp runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pickling fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Bruce Foods Corp: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Pickling fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bruce Foods Corp safety composite

Bruce Foods Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Bruce Foods Corp: 6.2 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2020

Bruce Foods Corp's TCR rose 2.7 from 6.2 in 2019 to 8.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · El Paso, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO POPPIE'S PICKLE PROD…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POPPIE'S PICKLE PRODUCTS, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bruce Foods Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bruce Foods Corp averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Pickling fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Bruce Foods Corp TCR series: 2019=6.2 · 2020=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bruce Foods Corp falls in its industry

330 Pickling fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Pickling fruits and vegetables employers in Texas.

Bruce Foods Corp (28 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bruce Foods Corp
Bruce Foods Corp (28 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bruce Foods Corp has fewer employees than the Pickling fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2020 8.9 4.4 1 1 0
2019 6.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · TX · El Paso

330 Pickling fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 POPPIE'S PICKLE PRODUCTS, INC. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottawa Foods Facility 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Inc. - Crums Lane 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods orrtanna 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Fort Worth 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle X Land & Cattle Co., Ltd. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Hi Gin INC 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Hanover Foods, Clayton DE 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baltimore Shops 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jax 2 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madsen Fixture & Millwork, Inc building 2 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gas Field Specialist - 3 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingra Redi-Mix, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Point by Sheraton Santa Cruz Scotts Valley 28 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: 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.