Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Hale Center Feedyard

Hale Center, TX · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hale Center Feedyard runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Hale Center Feedyard: 4.7 TCR = 105% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hale Center Feedyard safety composite

Hale Center Feedyard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2023→2024

Hale Center Feedyard injury rate improved

Hale Center Feedyard's TCR fell 3.4 from 6.4 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.4 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Hale Center, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #32/48
  • PHOTO Gray County Feed Yard
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gray County Feed Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hale Center Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hale Center Feedyard averages 4.7 TCR (105% 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

Hale Center Feedyard TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Hale Center Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #32 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Hale Center Feedyard (52 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 Hale Center Feedyard
Hale Center Feedyard (52 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Hale Center 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
2024 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 6.4 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Hale Center

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hale Center, 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 Gray County Feed Yard 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Eckley 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Beef 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE KR SGHS 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cactus Feeders 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Idalou Egg Ranch LP 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE HATCHERY II / HATCHERY III 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALE CENTER FEED YARD 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heifer Ranch at Arroyo Seco, LTD 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Livingston Health Care System 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Garfield County Hospital District 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Machs - Chelsea 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tnoak - Oakhaven Package Distribution Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Golden Oaks Village of Stillwater, LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Criminal Justice Services 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contract Converting LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Divide Brewing Company 52 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.