Guard services · Texas

Rio Grande Valley Sector

Harlingen, TX · ~201 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rio Grande Valley Sector runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Guard services workplace, earning a grade F.

Rio Grande Valley Sector: 6.3 TCR = 244% of Guard services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rio Grande Valley Sector safety composite

Rio Grande Valley Sector scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Rio Grande Valley Sector: 3.0 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Rio Grande Valley Sector's TCR rose 9.5 from 3.0 in 2021 to 12.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561612 · Harlingen, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 244% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Los Angeles
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rio Grande Valley Sector in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rio Grande Valley Sector averages 6.3 TCR (244% of the Guard services BLS benchmark).

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

Rio Grande Valley Sector TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Rio Grande Valley Sector falls in its industry

158 Guard services establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Guard services employers in Texas.

Rio Grande Valley Sector (201 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 176 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rio Grande Valley Sector
Rio Grande Valley Sector (201 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 176 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Rio Grande Valley Sector has more employees than the Guard services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 12.5 7.3 11 1 0
2023 5.4 1.5 10 1 0
2022 4.5 4.5 9 0 0
2021 3.0 0.5 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561612 · TX · Harlingen

158 Guard services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 133 employers in Harlingen, 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 Los Angeles 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSI-JSC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Paso Sector 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR APEX-San Francisco 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners - Permian 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longview Bridge and Road, Ltd 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dow Texas Operations Freeport TX 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkema Clear Lake 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-838 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_Harlingen_2921 S. Expswy 83_TCIP2T20 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 595 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Wildwood 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepper Source LTD. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR T&M Electric of Clay County, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Plastics, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Case Ready 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway Neurological & Rehabilitation Center 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Fredericksburg 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rush 201 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.