Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Colorado Box Beef - Houston

Houston, TX · ~122 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colorado Box Beef - Houston runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Colorado Box Beef - Houston: 2.1 TCR = 94% of Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colorado Box Beef - Houston safety composite

Colorado Box Beef - Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Colorado Box Beef - Houston: 1.5 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Colorado Box Beef - Houston's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.5 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/18
  • PHOTO Colorado Box Beef - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colorado Box Beef - Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colorado Box Beef - Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colorado Box Beef - Houston averages 2.1 TCR (94% of the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Colorado Box Beef - Houston TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Colorado Box Beef - Houston falls in its industry

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 18 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa employers in Texas.

Colorado Box Beef - Houston (122 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Colorado Box Beef - Houston
Colorado Box Beef - Houston (122 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Colorado Box Beef - Houston has more employees than the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · TX · Houston

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Colorado Box Beef - Atlanta 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD-BALTI01-Baltimore - MD - Halperns 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Packing Company LP 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dutch Creek Foods 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Tools, Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Benito SC 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Operations Center-119 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amarillo Technical Center-122 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Colorado Box Beef - Atlanta 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trulieve Miami 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Singer Kittredge 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tutor Perini/O&G Joint Venture PL2 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avient Kennesaw 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jasper County 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE SDB, Inc. (Corporate Office) 122 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. 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.