Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Friona Feedyard

Friona, TX · ~49 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Friona Feedyard runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Friona Feedyard: 4.7 TCR = 104% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friona Feedyard safety composite

Friona Feedyard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Friona Feedyard: 1.6 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2021

Friona Feedyard's TCR rose 3.1 from 1.6 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Friona, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #31/48
  • PHOTO Heritage Beef LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Beef LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Friona Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friona Feedyard averages 4.7 TCR (104% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Friona Feedyard TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=7 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Friona Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Friona Feedyard (49 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Friona Feedyard
Friona Feedyard (49 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Friona Feedyard has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2021 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 7.0 1.4 5 0 0
2018 6.8 0.0 5 0 1
2016 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Friona

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Friona, 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 Heritage Beef LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gray County Feed Yard 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hale Center Feedyard 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Kismet 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WOLF CREEK FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spandet Dairy Friona 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vist Grande Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arbor care inc. 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Beef-Friona Tx 2,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Meat Solutions 02 2,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0079 Cargill Incorporated- Friona 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parmer County Community Hospital dba Parmer Medical Center 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Senior Star at Villa Ventura 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Insul-Therm Sacramento 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Skilled facilty 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Restore Construction Group, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pratt Brothers Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bardon Inc, DBA Aggregate Industries 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electric Department 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Street & Alley Department 49 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, 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.