Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses · Texas

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant

El Campo, TX · ~98 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant safety composite

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant: 1.7 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.7 in 2018 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · El Campo, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #43/51
  • PHOTO Premio Foods Inc - UC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premio Foods Inc - UC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=14.8 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=7 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant falls in its industry

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #43 safest of 51 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri employers in Texas.

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant (98 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant
Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant (98 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant has fewer employees than the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and sa 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 4.6 4.6 6 0 0
2023 7.0 7.0 9 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 5 0 0
2021 6.5 6.5 7 0 0
2020 14.8 14.8 10 3 0
2019 13.7 11.4 12 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TX · El Campo

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 22 employers in El Campo, 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 Premio Foods Inc - UC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060207-60207 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawton Plant 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GC Foods 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Fain/West Panhandle 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Service Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texarkana Operations 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL PASO TX INFO CEN 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenleaf Nursery Company 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR 344 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 344 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR RedTail Hawk Solar Project 174 FTE
NAT-TCR Diversified Farm Labor Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ptcr Fairless Hills 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Veterans Home-Luverne 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Rst 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chapala Berry Farms 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE IVI North, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0077 Fremont 98 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.