Beef produced in slaughtering plants · Texas

Caviness

Hereford, TX · ~781 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caviness runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Caviness: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caviness safety composite

Caviness scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2020

Caviness injury rate improved

Caviness's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Hereford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Carl Buddig & Compan…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 151 inj
  • SIZE ~781 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carl Buddig & Company-15600 Wentowrth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caviness in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caviness averages 2.9 TCR (89% 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 TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Caviness falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #5 safest of 19 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in Texas.

Caviness (781 employees, TCR 2.9) 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
Caviness (781 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Caviness 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
2020 1.2 0.8 14 0 0
2019 2.8 1.3 29 0 0
2018 4.0 2.2 39 2 0
2017 4.8 3.8 51 0 0
2016 2.0 0.7 18 3 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 Carl Buddig & Company-15600 Wentowrth 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grinds-Fresno CA McDonalds 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaboard Foods, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milan Fresh 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cummings Electrical 780 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paris Regional Medical Center 782 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Table 782 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webber Infrastructure Management 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness Beef 1,334 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 HoneywellIL75 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AAF Flanders Atlanta 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer - Westland 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at Hanes Brands Inc. Cleveland 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reconn 9009 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abramson Research Center 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Management Services 781 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich - Sensors and Integrated Systems - Vergennes VT 781 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, 2018, 2017, 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.