Beef produced in slaughtering plants · Texas

Primary Beef-Friona Tx

Friona, TX · ~2,404 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Primary Beef-Friona Tx runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Primary Beef-Friona Tx: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primary Beef-Friona Tx safety composite

Primary Beef-Friona Tx scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Primary Beef-Friona Tx: 0.1 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Primary Beef-Friona Tx's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.1 in 2021 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Friona, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO Case Ready-Newnan GA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 360 inj
  • SIZE ~2,404 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Case Ready-Newnan GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Primary Beef-Friona Tx in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primary Beef-Friona Tx averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Primary Beef-Friona Tx TCR series: 2021=0.1 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Primary Beef-Friona Tx falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 19 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in Texas.

Primary Beef-Friona Tx (2,404 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Primary Beef-Friona Tx
Primary Beef-Friona Tx (2,404 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Primary Beef-Friona Tx has more employees than the Beef produced in slaughtering plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 4.3 3.9 85 21 0
2023 4.0 3.2 81 26 0
2022 4.5 3.9 86 37 0
2021 0.1 0.0 108 20 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · TX · Friona

212 Beef produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Friona, 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 Case Ready-Newnan GA 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Swift Beef 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Protein Dodge City 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Red River Army Depot 2,402 FTE
STATE-SIZE HOUSTON (CANINO) HUB (TXCAN) 2,399 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-DALL 2,397 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4263-35281 2,390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Meat Solutions 02 2,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0079 Cargill Incorporated- Friona 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parmer County Community Hospital dba Parmer Medical Center 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI / CARGILL INCORPORATED- FRIONA 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Edward A. Reider, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sefar Inc. - KC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Paradise Valley 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Clinic Corporate Office 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SLC1 2,406 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPMC Altoona 2,407 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bolthouse Bakersfield 2,400 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. 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.