Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Texas

J Bar B Foods Waelder

Waelder, TX · ~354 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J Bar B Foods Waelder runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade C.

J Bar B Foods Waelder: 4.4 TCR = 108% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J Bar B Foods Waelder safety composite

J Bar B Foods Waelder scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−0.6

2017→2022

J Bar B Foods Waelder injury rate improved

J Bar B Foods Waelder's TCR fell 0.6 from 4.4 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.4 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Waelder, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #20/32
  • PHOTO 80973-HOUSTON CULINA…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~354 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 80973-HOUSTON CULINARY CENTER (0.0 TCR gap)

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J Bar B Foods Waelder in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J Bar B Foods Waelder averages 4.4 TCR (108% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

J Bar B Foods Waelder TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=3.8 · BLS 4.1

Where J Bar B Foods Waelder falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 32 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Texas.

J Bar B Foods Waelder (354 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate J Bar B Foods Waelder
J Bar B Foods Waelder (354 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

J Bar B Foods Waelder has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 3.8 3.8 14 0 0
2020 4.3 3.8 18 1 0
2019 5.2 4.1 24 0 0
2017 4.4 2.7 17 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · TX · Waelder

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 13 employers in Waelder, 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 80973-HOUSTON CULINARY CENTER 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Kitchen 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Bar B Foods Weimar 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrea Foods 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOS Holdings, Inc. 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schmidt Electric Company, Inc. 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 595 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waelder Plant 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Banyan Texas 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Complex 2 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waelder 1 Complex 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Audubon Health & Rehab 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 5407 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 0739 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OCH Evergreen Clinic 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ESCO Group LLC, 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Education 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care at Home 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE VA004 354 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.