Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Garden Highway-Calavo

Houston, TX · ~352 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden Highway-Calavo runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Garden Highway-Calavo: 3.8 TCR = 171% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden Highway-Calavo safety composite

Garden Highway-Calavo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2022→2024

Garden Highway-Calavo injury rate improved

Garden Highway-Calavo's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.3 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.3 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #13/26
  • PHOTO 7175_16271
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~352 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7175_16271 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden Highway-Calavo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden Highway-Calavo averages 3.8 TCR (171% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Garden Highway-Calavo TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Garden Highway-Calavo falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 26 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Texas.

Garden Highway-Calavo (352 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Garden Highway-Calavo
Garden Highway-Calavo (352 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Garden Highway-Calavo has more employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 2.7 2.7 6 0 0
2023 3.3 2.7 7 4 0
2022 5.3 5.3 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · TX · Houston

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 7175_16271 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR D'ARRIGO BROS. CO. OF NEW YORK, INC. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loffredo Fresh Foods - MAD 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA SWEETS NEW JERSEY 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Victoria Area Office 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Houston Office 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tucker Energy Solutions 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMR Constructors, Inc. - Beaumont Operations 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1717 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1069 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0640 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR T.W. Clark Construction 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Easterseals Arkansas Center of Training & Wellness 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Milwaukee - 0578 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works Transportation Maintenance Repair Division 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Electric Automotive Inc. 352 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. 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.