Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Texas

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods

Mcallen, TX · ~104 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade B.

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods safety composite

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.9

2016→2023

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods injury rate improved

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=1.0 · 2023=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Mcallen, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/24
  • PHOTO Cargill Meat Solutions
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Meat Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=6 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=1 · 2021=1 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Texas.

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods (104 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods
Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods (104 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods has fewer employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 7 0 0
2017 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · TX · Mcallen

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 192 employers in Mcallen, 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 Cargill Meat Solutions 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG Foods 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Processing 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siler City Processing 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oncor SOSF 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE JASPER NEWTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Carlos Location 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE SLSCO 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Grande Regional Hospital 2,690 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCU McAllen 1,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_McAllen_3701 N 23rd St._TX540296401 1,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-026 1,042 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #578 LAKE WORTH, FL 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1781 Conway, SC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pregis- Glens Falls 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington (S6) 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE LaGuardia Airport 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Precision 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Brothers Electric, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 049 104 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.