Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Mercedes Facility

Mercedes, TX · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedes Facility runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Mercedes Facility: 6.0 TCR = 272% of Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedes Facility safety composite

Mercedes Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Mercedes Facility: 4.6 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.23× in 2018

Mercedes Facility's TCR rose 8.8 from 4.6 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Mercedes, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 272% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK #16/23
  • PHOTO Reiter Springfield -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reiter Springfield - West Chester OH - DTI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercedes Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedes Facility averages 6.0 TCR (272% of the Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedes Facility TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=13.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Mercedes Facility falls in its industry

231 Dairy products (except canned, establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 23 Dairy products (except canned, employers in Texas.

Mercedes Facility (33 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercedes Facility
Mercedes Facility (33 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Mercedes Facility has fewer employees than the Dairy products (except canned, dried) me median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2018 13.3 13.3 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TX · Mercedes

231 Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Mercedes, 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 Reiter Springfield - West Chester OH - DTI 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 810 - Purple Cow Creamery 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFG - Hammond LA - Anderson 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - CHARLOTTE NC 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Office 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen TX FXFE-HRL 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Location 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid Valley Nursing and Rehabilitaiton 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Health 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0024 0011 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilkesboro (Ncwil) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Three Rivers Surgical Care 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambulance 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE A&D Supply of Okc, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE EC010 - Bessemer, AL - 0100 33 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: 2018, 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.