Tortillas manufacturing · Texas

El Matador Foods Inc

Baytown, TX · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Matador Foods Inc runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tortillas manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

El Matador Foods Inc: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Tortillas manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Matador Foods Inc safety composite

El Matador Foods Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

El Matador Foods Inc: 2.1 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

El Matador Foods Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.1 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311830 · Baytown, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Ole Mexican Foods, V…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ole Mexican Foods, Valdosta (0.1 TCR gap)

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El Matador Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Matador Foods Inc averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Tortillas manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

El Matador Foods Inc TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where El Matador Foods Inc falls in its industry

93 Tortillas manufacturing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Tortillas manufacturing employers in Texas.

El Matador Foods Inc (80 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate El Matador Foods Inc
El Matador Foods Inc (80 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7

El Matador Foods Inc has fewer employees than the Tortillas manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311830 · TX · Baytown

93 Tortillas manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 247 employers in Baytown, 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 Ole Mexican Foods, Valdosta 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ole Mexican Foods, Norcross 6585 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mi Rancho 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ole Mexican Foods, Grand Prairie 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE STRC Oilfield Technology, LLC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Plaza 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE YSTA Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Office 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Growth Olefins Recovery Project 2,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital 1,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery 1,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7042 1,288 FTE
NAT-TCR St. John the Baptist Church & School 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Transportation Bus Service 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hill's Cleaners 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trans-Colorado Excavation, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nob Hill 620-Scotts Valley 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 338-Oakdale 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brugola OEB Industriale Inc. USA 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calico Cottage, Inc. 80 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.