Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · Texas

DFW Foods

Name: DFW Foods Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fort Worth, TX · ~819 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 11.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

DFW Foods runs at 534% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

DFW Foods: 11.8 TCR = 534% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DFW Foods safety composite

DFW Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 11.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
DART rate: F 11.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

DFW Foods: 8.5 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2021

DFW Foods's TCR rose 6.2 from 8.5 in 2016 to 14.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Fort Worth, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 534% of ind

DART 11.5 DART
RANK #113/123
PHOTO OH-SPRIN01
BOOK 6y book
INJ 724 inj
SIZE ~819 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OH-SPRIN01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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11.7
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11.7

What this shows DFW Foods averages 11.8 TCR (534% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

DFW Foods TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=14.5 · 2018=11.1 · 2019=12 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=14.7 · BLS 2.2

Where DFW Foods falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #113 safest of 123 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in Texas.

DFW Foods (819 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

DFW Foods has more employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021	14.7	11.5	164
2020	9.8	7.7	104
2019	12.0	9.1	128
2018	11.1	8.1	119
2017	14.5	10.0	132
2016	8.5	6.4	77

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · TX · Fort Worth

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,346 employers in Fort Worth, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	OH-SPRIN01	SPRINGFIELD, OH	11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Austin Food Sales Office	AUSTIN, TX	11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UNFI - Champaign DC, IL	URBANA, IL	11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Youngwood PA	YOUNGWOOD, PA	11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Enterprise Products Operating L.L.C.- Houston Region	MONT BELVIEU	819 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DALLAS NDC_1435750	DALLAS	819 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Scott & White Hospital - College Station	COLLEGE STATION	819 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Priefert Manufacturing	MOUNT PLEASANT	820 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093)	Fort Worth	16,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lockheed Martin Corporation Fort Worth Campus (1093)	Fort Worth	13,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cook Children's Medical Center	Fort Worth	4,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TX- Fort Worth	Fort Worth	4,667 FTE
NAT-TCR	Latite Roofing and Sheet Metal	Pompano Beach, FL	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Henris Supply, Inc. dba Henris Roofing Co.	Petaluma, CA	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Berco of America-North Carolina	Greensboro, NC	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	252519-Det-Oak Park Sta	Oak Park, MI	11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Apache - Sasol Chemicals Plant	Westlake, LA	819 FTE
NAT-SIZE	W&W Steel Erectors, LLC. Corporate Office	New York, NY	819 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PIH Health Physicians	Whittier, CA	819 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Immokalee	Immokalee, FL	819 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.