Animal shelters · Texas

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS

Edinburg, TX · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS runs at 601% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal shelters workplace, earning a grade F.

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS: 12.6 TCR = 601% of Animal shelters BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS safety composite

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−53.7

2019→2021

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS injury rate improved

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS's TCR fell 53.7 from 53.7 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 53.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=53.7 · 2020=25.2 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Edinburg, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 601% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO WAG HOTELS - San Diego
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WAG HOTELS - San Diego (0.1 TCR gap)

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Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS averages 12.6 TCR (601% of the Animal shelters BLS benchmark).

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

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS TCR series: 2019=53.7 · 2020=25.2 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS falls in its industry

65 Animal shelters establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Animal shelters employers in Texas.

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS (22 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS
Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS (22 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS has fewer employees than the Animal shelters median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 25.2 8.4 3 0 0
2019 53.7 37.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · TX · Edinburg

65 Animal shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 104 employers in Edinburg, 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 WAG HOTELS - San Diego 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GPSPCA Merriam 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Animal Services 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCCR OC Animal Care 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matador Ranch 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheeler Land & Livestock, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond B Feedyard, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luckey Custom Feedlot, Inc. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doctors Hospital at Renaissance 4,521 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Rio Grande Valley 3,315 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-157 743 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-21066000-21066 718 FTE
NAT-TCR Bible Pork 4 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Belvarken A.I. Center 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Monarch Mountain 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn Gadsden 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Entergy Winnsboro 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Valley Cooperative-Geneseo 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shields for Families - ARK/Jericho 22 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, 2020, 2019. 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.