Sugar, raw, manufacturing · Texas

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc.

Santa Rosa, TX · ~289 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sugar, raw, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc.: 7.3 TCR = 174% of Sugar, raw, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. safety composite

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 56% 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 Sugar Growers inc.: 9.0 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc.'s TCR rose 6.3 from 9.0 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311314 · Santa Rosa, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 174% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO LOUISIANA SUGARCANE …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 146 inj
  • SIZE ~289 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LOUISIANA SUGARCANE COOP (0.2 TCR gap)

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Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. averages 7.3 TCR (174% of the Sugar, raw, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. TCR series: 2016=9 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=8 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. falls in its industry

57 Sugar, raw, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Sugar, raw, manufacturing employers in Texas.

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. (289 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc.
Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. (289 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers inc. has more employees than the Sugar, raw, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 15.3 8.1 17 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 9 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.0 5.0 27 0 0
2020 4.2 3.2 20 1 0
2019 10.7 7.7 39 0 0
2016 9.0 7.5 34 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311314 · TX · Santa Rosa

57 Sugar, raw, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 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 LOUISIANA SUGARCANE COOP 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westfield Factory 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AARUBCO RUBBER COMPANY 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lula Factory 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE C1554 - Enterprise - Frac IX 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reece Albert 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at CTCI McDermott Integrated Gregory TX 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Gap Instrumentation 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Rosa Village 3 FTE
NAT-TCR Dixie Grinders, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilman Healthcare Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonata Viera 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Express, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Highlands Lake Center 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Cincinnati 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE We Love Berries LLC 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9998 Coborn's Support Center 289 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, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.