Beef produced in slaughtering plants · Texas

Caviness Beef

Hereford, TX · ~1,334 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caviness Beef runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Caviness Beef: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caviness Beef safety composite

Caviness Beef scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Caviness Beef: 2.9 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Caviness Beef's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.9 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Hereford, TX ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #8/19
  • PHOTO JBS-Omaha
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 211 inj
  • SIZE ~1,334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JBS-Omaha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caviness Beef in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caviness Beef averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Caviness Beef TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Caviness Beef falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 19 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in Texas.

Caviness Beef (1,334 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Caviness Beef
Caviness Beef (1,334 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Caviness Beef has more employees than the Beef produced in slaughtering plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 3.5 2.5 51 0 0
2023 4.0 3.1 63 1 0
2022 3.8 2.5 58 1 0
2021 2.9 2.2 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · TX · Hereford

212 Beef produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 38 employers in Hereford, 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 JBS-Omaha 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grinds - Fort Worth TX 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sailer's Food Market & Meat Processing Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abbyland Pork Pack 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FedEx 2001 WORLD WIDE DR 1,334 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-954 1,334 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC Professional Tree Services, Inc 1,333 FTE
STATE-SIZE 753 1,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Petcare 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3384 238 FTE
NAT-TCR J&L Wire Cloth SC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DMC Consultants, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont Maintenance Services Includes Streets, Buildings and Fleet 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S06991 - Butler Hauling 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA20185 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE BD Medical Systems 1,334 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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