Meat Processed From Carcasses · Texas

Vernon Plant

Vernon, TX · ~853 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Vernon Plant runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat Processed From Carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Vernon Plant: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vernon Plant safety composite

Vernon Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 44% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Vernon Plant: 1.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 33.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Vernon Plant's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.9 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 33.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Vernon, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #49/51
  • PHOTO Union Ave
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~853 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Union Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vernon Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vernon Plant averages 8.8 TCR (268% of the Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Vernon Plant TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1 · 2020=33.4 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=13 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Vernon Plant falls in its industry

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 51 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers in Texas.

Vernon Plant (853 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vernon Plant
Vernon Plant (853 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Vernon Plant has more employees than the Meat Processed From Carcasses median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.9 2.9 28 12 0
2023 3.7 3.1 18 21 0
2022 13.0 12.5 12 117 0
2021 13.2 13.2 12 108 0
2020 33.4 33.2 5 273 1
2019 1.0 0.9 4 5 0
2018 0.6 0.5 4 1 0
2017 1.9 1.2 9 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TX · Vernon

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 16 employers in Vernon, 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 Union Ave 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR F B Purnell Sausage Co., Inc 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kountry Boys Sausage - Plant 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiolbassa Provision Company Brazos 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6394-B2288 853 FTE
STATE-SIZE ExxonMobil Baytown Chemical Plant 852 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dow Seadrift 852 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Battery Company 854 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3229 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3229 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advanced Rehabilitation and Healthcare of Vernon 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR USM Store #513 (United) 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Angelus Block - Orange 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadmoor Court 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CentraCare Clinic Big Lake 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR S09802 - WM Recycling Brevard 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gobierno Municipal De Isabela 853 FTE
NAT-SIZE 200 Hotel 853 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington State Department of Agriculture 853 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennsylvania (P6) 853 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, 2018, 2017. 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.