Fats, animal, rendering · Texas

County Services - Hereford

Hereford, TX · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

County Services - Hereford runs at 715% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

County Services - Hereford: 23.6 TCR = 715% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

County Services - Hereford safety composite

County Services - Hereford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

County Services - Hereford: 14.3 → 32.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 32.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2017

County Services - Hereford's TCR rose 18.5 from 14.3 in 2016 to 32.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Hereford, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.6 · 715% of ind

  • DART 18.2 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Sanimax, USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanimax, USA (4.0 TCR gap)

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County Services - Hereford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows County Services - Hereford averages 23.6 TCR (715% of the Fats, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

County Services - Hereford TCR series: 2016=14.3 · 2017=32.8 · BLS 3.3

Where County Services - Hereford falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Fats, animal, rendering employers in Texas.

County Services - Hereford (25 employees, TCR 23.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate County Services - Hereford
County Services - Hereford (25 employees, TCR 23.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

County Services - Hereford has fewer employees than the Fats, animal, rendering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2017 32.8 18.2 9 0 0
2016 14.3 10.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Hereford

151 Fats, animal, rendering 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 Sanimax, USA 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling International Inc 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: Holden 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 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 Jefferson Ofc/Whse 23.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Transport-Ontario 23.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Milaca Elim Meadows Healthcare Center 23.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AMZL-NA : Summit City Spartan Delivery LLC 23.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3105 Republic Services of South Carolina, Hilton Head 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Sharonville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCR - Dayton 25 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: 2017, 2016. 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.