Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston Avocado Company Inc

Houston, TX · ~124 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Avocado Company Inc runs at 456% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Avocado Company Inc: 10.0 TCR = 456% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Avocado Company Inc safety composite

Houston Avocado Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−24.3

2017→2024

Houston Avocado Company Inc injury rate improved

Houston Avocado Company Inc's TCR fell 24.3 from 25.9 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 25.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=25.9 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=8.1 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 456% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #25/26
  • PHOTO Sanwa International …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanwa International Wholesale Foods, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Houston Avocado Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Avocado Company Inc averages 10.0 TCR (456% 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

Houston Avocado Company Inc TCR series: 2017=25.9 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=8.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Avocado Company Inc falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #25 safest of 26 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Texas.

Houston Avocado Company Inc (124 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 Houston Avocado Company Inc
Houston Avocado Company Inc (124 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Houston Avocado Company Inc has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher 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 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 9 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 6 0 0
2019 8.8 8.8 3 0 0
2017 25.9 23.1 9 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 Sanwa International Wholesale Foods, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR J. Ambrogi Foods 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FOOD SERVICE SLICING, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NANCO Distribution Company 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Citadel Drilling Ltd 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cisco Logistics 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Bellaire 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stoneridge Solar 124 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 Gateway Transitional Care Center 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Council Bluffs 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 106 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocala Fl - 915 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Germantown 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Top Home of Comfort, Inc 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Clinica 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York 124 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.