Warehousing and Distribution · Texas

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution

Houston, TX · ~59 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Warehousing and Distribution workplace, earning a grade C.

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution: 5.5 TCR = 95% of Warehousing and Distribution BLS 5.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution safety composite

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−1.5

2016→2024

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution injury rate improved

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #51/71
  • PHOTO Finney County DC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Finney County DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution averages 5.5 TCR (95% of the Warehousing and Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing and Distribution establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 71 Warehousing and Distribution employers in Texas.

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution
Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Dawn Food Products - Houston Distribution has fewer employees than the Warehousing and Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2021 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2020 13.4 11.8 8 0 0
2019 7.2 4.3 5 0 0
2018 7.1 4.3 5 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · TX · Houston

1,039 Warehousing and Distribution 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 Finney County DC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KBC Storage, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR USCS- Bethlehem, PA (Emery St.) 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deerfield Distribution 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Omega Protein INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Plainview SPSC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beckville Mine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG - T.H. Wharton 59 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 Hancock Lumber Company-Bridgton 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Strathallan Hotel 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Social Vocational Services #314 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain Medical Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metro Transit Rail Support Facility 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaller Corporation Plant 6 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burley Clay Products Company 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Safety Service LLC 59 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.