Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing · Texas

Night Hawk Frozen Foods

Buda, TX · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Night Hawk Frozen Foods runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Night Hawk Frozen Foods: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Night Hawk Frozen Foods safety composite

Night Hawk Frozen Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Night Hawk Frozen Foods: 5.1 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2021

Night Hawk Frozen Foods's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.1 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Buda, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #23/29
  • PHOTO Corvallis Corndog Pl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corvallis Corndog Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Night Hawk Frozen Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Night Hawk Frozen Foods averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Night Hawk Frozen Foods TCR series: 2018=5.1 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Night Hawk Frozen Foods falls in its industry

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 29 Dinners, frozen (except seafoo employers in Texas.

Night Hawk Frozen Foods (64 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Night Hawk Frozen Foods
Night Hawk Frozen Foods (64 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Night Hawk Frozen Foods has fewer employees than the Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2021 6.2 1.0 6 0 0
2018 5.1 5.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · TX · Buda

274 Dinners, frozen (except seafood-based), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 55 employers in Buda, 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 Corvallis Corndog Plant 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisa Food Products, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caseyville Plant 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ameripack Foods LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mill Creek 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Palestine Hatchery 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS MT. PLEASANT HACTCHERY 2 & 3 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TGNR East Texas LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS Austin 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAPITAL EXCAVATION COMPANY 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4219 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAU5 300 FTE
NAT-TCR Upi Manufacturing 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Roofing Manhattan 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Laminated Products Plant 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MKB Construction Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paramount Terminal 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Famous Tattoo Ink 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE BHGAR - Lowell (AR016) 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMCV 64 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: 2021, 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.