Processed meats manufacturing · Texas

New Braunfels Smokehouse

New Braunfels, TX · ~96 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Braunfels Smokehouse runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

New Braunfels Smokehouse: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Braunfels Smokehouse safety composite

New Braunfels Smokehouse scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

New Braunfels Smokehouse: 3.2 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2023

New Braunfels Smokehouse's TCR rose 8.2 from 3.2 in 2017 to 11.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · New Braunfels, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #38/51
  • PHOTO Lopez Foods Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lopez Foods Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Braunfels Smokehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Braunfels Smokehouse averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New Braunfels Smokehouse TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=6 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where New Braunfels Smokehouse falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #38 safest of 51 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Texas.

New Braunfels Smokehouse (96 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 New Braunfels Smokehouse
New Braunfels Smokehouse (96 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

New Braunfels Smokehouse has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2023 11.5 11.5 11 0 0
2022 8.2 8.2 8 0 0
2020 6.0 5.0 6 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 5 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TX · New Braunfels

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 183 employers in New Braunfels, 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 Lopez Foods Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSM Raw 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palisades Ranch 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport Meat Northern California 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3110 N I35 ROUND ROCK TX 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECO Central Plant 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oates Industries, Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen - 1800 Hughes Landing Blvd 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resort - New Braunfels 1,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6016 1,026 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6016 1,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Central Texas 1,004 FTE
NAT-TCR Premium Packing, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0260 - Tolleson Az (Wet) Depot 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pistoresi Ambulance Service of Madera, Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L2 Construction Services LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oxford Forge 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stillwater Motor Company 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Service Center 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brownsville Elementary School 96 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: 2023, 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.