Beef cattle ranching or farming · Texas

Champion Feeders

Hereford, TX · ~55 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Champion Feeders runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle ranching or farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Champion Feeders: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Beef cattle ranching or farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Champion Feeders safety composite

Champion Feeders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2016→2024

Champion Feeders injury rate improved

Champion Feeders's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.4 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.4 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112111 · Hereford, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #9/16
  • PHOTO TRCC, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRCC, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Champion Feeders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Champion Feeders averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Beef cattle ranching or farming BLS benchmark).

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

Champion Feeders TCR series: 2016=9.4 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Champion Feeders falls in its industry

75 Beef cattle ranching or farmin establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 16 Beef cattle ranching or farmin employers in Texas.

Champion Feeders (55 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 6.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Champion Feeders
Champion Feeders (55 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 6.5

Champion Feeders has more employees than the Beef cattle ranching or farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.5. 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 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 4 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2016 9.4 3.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112111 · TX · Hereford

75 Beef cattle ranching or farming 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 TRCC, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maughan Ranches, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Paloma Ranch 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Q Ranch, LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SANTA GERTRUDIS 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWISHER COUNTY CATTLE COMPANY 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harwood Complex 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erskine Ops 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness Beef 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Petcare 366 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 171 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 3121 Keystone 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-Cities Manufacturing, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Scot Industries - Muscoda 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minden Machine Shop, Inc 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yard Truck Specialists 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Truck Sales - Mobile 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ellison Bronze 55 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, 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.