Meat Processed From Carcasses · Texas

Houston Portwall St Plant

Houston, TX · ~624 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Houston Portwall St Plant runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat Processed From Carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Houston Portwall St Plant: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Portwall St Plant safety composite

Houston Portwall St Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Houston Portwall St Plant held a steady TCR band

Houston Portwall St Plant's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.0 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=13.3 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #25/51
  • PHOTO West Liberty Foods
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~624 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Liberty Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Portwall St Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Portwall St Plant averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Portwall St Plant TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=13.3 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Houston Portwall St Plant falls in its industry

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 51 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers in Texas.

Houston Portwall St Plant (624 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Houston Portwall St Plant
Houston Portwall St Plant (624 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Houston Portwall St Plant has more employees than the Meat Processed From Carcasses median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.1 0.6 5 2 0
2023 1.1 0.7 6 2 0
2022 8.4 8.1 4 53 0
2021 12.1 12.1 3 77 0
2020 13.3 12.8 8 75 1
2019 1.1 1.0 6 1 0
2018 0.5 0.5 3 0 0
2017 1.0 0.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TX · Houston

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses 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 West Liberty Foods 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vietti Acquisition LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosina Food Products, Inc. - Industrial 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR No Man's Land 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Don Miguel Foods 624 FTE
STATE-SIZE HST 624 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mammoet USA South INC. 623 FTE
STATE-SIZE Android Industries 625 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 Cumming Plant 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Topnotch Services Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shea Properties-CA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cruz & Fazio Concrete, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Espinoza Farm Labor Contractor 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE TWC Services, Inc. 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adams Memorial Hospital 624 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center 624 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, 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.