Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses · Texas

Waelder Plant

Waelder, TX · ~312 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waelder Plant runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade A.

Waelder Plant: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waelder Plant safety composite

Waelder Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Waelder Plant held a steady TCR band

Waelder Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2023 to 0.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.3 · 2024=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Waelder, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #2/51
  • PHOTO Global Headquarters
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waelder Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waelder Plant averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Waelder Plant TCR series: 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Waelder Plant falls in its industry

613 Beef, primal and sub-primal cu establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #2 safest of 51 Beef, primal and sub-primal cu employers in Texas.

Waelder Plant (312 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 Waelder Plant
Waelder Plant (312 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Waelder Plant has more employees than the Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made f median and a lower 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 0.1 0.1 18 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TX · Waelder

613 Beef, primal and sub-primal cuts, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 13 employers in Waelder, 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 Global Headquarters 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weimar Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Advantage 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Juneau Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services @ DAC-1 Access 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE V.K. Knowlton Construction and Utilities Inc. 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE FireTron 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPT Laredo 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Bar B Foods Waelder 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Banyan Texas 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Complex 2 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waelder 1 Complex 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Servion Group 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MDW-GH 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Information Technology Services Raritan 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE YAPP USA Automotive Systems Inc. 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fieldturf USA 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orhll - Hillsboro Center 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mikal - Kalamazoo 312 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.