Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Keeling Cattle Feeders

Hereford, TX · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keeling Cattle Feeders runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Keeling Cattle Feeders: 1.4 TCR = 32% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keeling Cattle Feeders safety composite

Keeling Cattle Feeders scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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)
A 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Keeling Cattle Feeders: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2017

Keeling Cattle Feeders's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Hereford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #5/48
  • PHOTO Diamond B Feedyard, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond B Feedyard, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Keeling Cattle Feeders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keeling Cattle Feeders averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Keeling Cattle Feeders TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Keeling Cattle Feeders falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Keeling Cattle Feeders (26 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Keeling Cattle Feeders
Keeling Cattle Feeders (26 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Keeling Cattle Feeders has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2017 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Hereford

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 38 employers in Hereford, 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 Diamond B Feedyard, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HANSFORD COUNTY FEEDERS, LP 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 30 HC Hitch Feedlot 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lariat Feeders, LLC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Descanso Dairy, LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Center Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness Beef 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Petcare 366 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Nicks 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Ft Wayne Southwest 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Winter Garden Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ksi Trading Corp - 55va 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0765 - Roseburg, or 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0391 - Avondale, Az 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0215 - Philadelphia, Pa 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0213 - Jacksonville West, Fl 26 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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