Salad dressings manufacturing · Texas

Food Manufacturing

Brenham, TX · ~82 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food Manufacturing runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Food Manufacturing: 5.5 TCR = 135% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food Manufacturing safety composite

Food Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Food Manufacturing: 1.4 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Food Manufacturing's TCR rose 3.2 from 1.4 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Brenham, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO SOUTHERN CLASSIC FOO…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOUTHERN CLASSIC FOOD GROUP, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food Manufacturing averages 5.5 TCR (135% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Food Manufacturing TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Food Manufacturing falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 17 Salad dressings manufacturing employers in Texas.

Food Manufacturing (82 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Food Manufacturing
Food Manufacturing (82 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Food Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.7 4.7 4 0 0
2023 8.2 8.2 7 0 0
2022 4.7 3.5 3 1 0
2021 8.7 8.7 7 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · TX · Brenham

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 62 employers in Brenham, 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 SOUTHERN CLASSIC FOOD GROUP, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4188_7965 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VanLaw Food Products, Inc, 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zilks Plus Resources LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORTELLARO'S NURSERY LTD SCHERTZ, TX 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland 11700 Onyx Dr, Midland, TX 79706 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maverick Well Pluggers 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocker A Well Service, Inc. 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brenham 01 756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Germania Farm Mutual Insurance 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6394-B2284 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Girling Community Care - Brenham 305 FTE
NAT-TCR Newtech Installation USA Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WIM002 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mar-Mac Industries, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at United Club Dca Per Pax 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lynden Oxbo International 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gehring Tricot Corp. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Antigo 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radial Inc MTV 2 82 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, 2019. 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.