Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Texas

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston

Houston, TX · ~157 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston: 4.4 TCR = 202% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston safety composite

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−1.7

2023→2024

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston injury rate improved

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston's TCR fell 1.7 from 5.3 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 202% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #15/26
  • PHOTO 4704_10737
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4704_10737 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston averages 4.4 TCR (202% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #15 safest of 26 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Texas.

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston (157 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston
Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston (157 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Hardie's Fresh Foods Houston has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer 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 3.6 3.6 5 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · TX · Houston

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries 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 4704_10737 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Full Circle Seattle Sales Office/Call Center 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4503_9796 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FFTY- Vernon Warehouse 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy Corporation - Bridgeport 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Cypress 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE ODESSA TX WEST 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCC Civil and Mechanical 157 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 Basic Grain Products Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Meiwa Industry North America, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TerWisscha Construction, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Acra Cast 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic Paperboard 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbridge Alabama, LP 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Greenwich 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Med-Pharmex Inc - 2727 157 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.