Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Frontier Feedyard

Spearman, TX · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frontier Feedyard runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade D.

Frontier Feedyard: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frontier Feedyard safety composite

Frontier Feedyard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Frontier Feedyard: 5.7 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

Frontier Feedyard's TCR rose 1.7 from 5.7 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #40/48
  • PHOTO ULYSSES FEED YARD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ULYSSES FEED YARD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frontier Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frontier Feedyard averages 6.5 TCR (145% 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

Frontier Feedyard TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Frontier Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #40 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Frontier Feedyard (40 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Frontier Feedyard
Frontier Feedyard (40 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Frontier Feedyard has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a higher 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
2024 7.4 1.8 4 0 0
2023 5.7 3.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Spearman

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Spearman, 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 ULYSSES FEED YARD 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grant County Feeders 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Tulia 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centerfire Feedyard 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dixondale Sales Agency LLC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR HANSFORD COUNTY FEEDERS, LP 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skyland Grain, LLC- Spearman Gin 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRONTIER FEED YARD 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR 064-SPEARMAN 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Buerkle Imports Company Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeview Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cub Foods Alexandria - 5521 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DCHM Comfort Suites Hartville 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jamestown Electro Plating Works Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Source, LLC (GHR07) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fusion Wood Products 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elexco, Inc. 40 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. 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.