Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin

Austin, TX · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin runs at 421% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin: 9.3 TCR = 421% of Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin safety composite

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin: 9.6 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2024

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin's TCR rose 8.8 from 9.6 in 2018 to 18.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 421% of ind

  • DART 18.4 DART
  • RANK #21/23
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING NOR…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - LANSDALE PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin averages 9.3 TCR (421% of the Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin TCR series: 2018=9.6 · 2019=19.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin falls in its industry

231 Dairy products (except canned, establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 23 Dairy products (except canned, employers in Texas.

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin (29 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin
Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin (29 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Hill Country Dairies, Inc. - Austin has fewer employees than the Dairy products (except canned, dried) me median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 18.4 18.4 4 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 19.5 8.3 7 0 0
2018 9.6 6.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TX · Austin

231 Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - LANSDALE PA 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FPS Alsip 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNITED DAIRY CHARLESTON WV FACILITY 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Country Fresh - Livonia - Merriman 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pepper Dairy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE SROOC Holding LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Logging, LLC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR E A Sween Company-Denver Kroger 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TC Construction Company, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DIY Home Center Crescenta Valley 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR California Transplants 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lee Air. Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Methodist Hospital Northlake & Retail 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrey's Contracting 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE EFR Environmental Services Inc 29 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.