Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Arizona

McElhaney Feedyard

Wellton, AZ · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McElhaney Feedyard runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade B.

McElhaney Feedyard: 2.7 TCR = 59% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McElhaney Feedyard safety composite

McElhaney Feedyard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2020→2024

McElhaney Feedyard injury rate improved

McElhaney Feedyard's TCR fell 3.6 from 4.4 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.4 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Wellton, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P81
  • PHOTO Cactus Feedyard
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cactus Feedyard (0.0 TCR gap)

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McElhaney Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McElhaney Feedyard averages 2.7 TCR (59% 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

McElhaney Feedyard TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where McElhaney Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
McElhaney Feedyard (86 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 McElhaney Feedyard
McElhaney Feedyard (86 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

McElhaney Feedyard has more 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
2024 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 5 0 0
2021 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2020 4.4 2.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · AZ · Wellton

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 3 employers in Wellton, AZ · 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 Cactus Feedyard 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffalo Feeders, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Satanta Farms North #1 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MG Mountain Gate 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swengel-Robbins Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sombrero Construction 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Nickerson Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Sales, Inc. Del Sol 8 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Spartanburg County 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Trade Milwaukee 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Materion - Albuquerque (North) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PL Developments - Clinton Warehouse 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vision Drive LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center for Employment Training 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kings, Queens, Jacks LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dwyer Instruments Inc - Grandview MO 86 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. 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.