Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Texas

Southwest Feedyard

Hereford, TX · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Feedyard runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwest Feedyard: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Feedyard safety composite

Southwest Feedyard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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)
C 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Southwest Feedyard: 2.3 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Southwest Feedyard's TCR rose 4.2 from 2.3 in 2023 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Hereford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #30/48
  • PHOTO L&L Farm 1 - Grand V…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&L Farm 1 - Grand View (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southwest Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Feedyard averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Feedyard TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwest Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 48 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Texas.

Southwest Feedyard (35 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Feedyard
Southwest Feedyard (35 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Southwest Feedyard has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 6.5 2.2 3 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · TX · Hereford

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 38 employers in Hereford, 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 L&L Farm 1 - Grand View 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stratford Feedyard 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Littlefield Feedyard 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syracuse Feedyard 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDF Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. - Marion, TX 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Select Produce, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Gas Measurement, Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness Beef 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caviness 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Petcare 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Maplewood Cli Specialty Cntr 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ctbra - Bradley Airsort 85-171 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ny43r - 43rd Street 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Luverne Middle/High School 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FV JN Opt Rehab - Spine Center 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melvin Pierce Painting Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cabih - Bishop 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prsjn - San Juan 35 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. 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.