Grocery stores · Texas

FoodTown #209

Highlands, TX · ~93 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FoodTown #209 runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade A.

FoodTown #209: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FoodTown #209 safety composite

FoodTown #209 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

FoodTown #209: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 5.4× in 2024

FoodTown #209's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 5.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Highlands, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #27/1899
  • PHOTO Berkots 321
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berkots 321 (0.0 TCR gap)

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FoodTown #209 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FoodTown #209 averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

FoodTown #209 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.4

Where FoodTown #209 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #27 safest of 1899 Grocery stores employers in Texas.

FoodTown #209 (93 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate FoodTown #209
FoodTown #209 (93 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

FoodTown #209 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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 2 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TX · Highlands

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Highlands, 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 Berkots 321 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 50038 Rocky Mountain Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hometown Grocery LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 111 ZUMBEHL 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Apache Corporation - Houston Region 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strata Material, LLC. Dba Acrosa Crushed Concrete 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Branch Service Center CPC4 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARLINGEN TX OF 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZXP Technologies 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plastipak- Highlands 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Franklin 50 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GBS Corp 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack Batte & Sons, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seffner Clearence Center - #901 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Exterior Systems 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Brick Company 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glen Ridge Health Campus 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leeda Northeast Portage 93 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.