Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Texas

WE Hereford LLC

Hereford, TX · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WE Hereford LLC runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

WE Hereford LLC: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WE Hereford LLC safety composite

WE Hereford LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2016→2023

WE Hereford LLC injury rate improved

WE Hereford LLC's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Hereford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO PureField Ingredient…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PureField Ingredients, Co-products (0.0 TCR gap)

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WE Hereford LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WE Hereford LLC averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WE Hereford LLC TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where WE Hereford LLC falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 5 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Texas.

WE Hereford LLC (43 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WE Hereford LLC
WE Hereford LLC (43 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

WE Hereford LLC has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.4 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · TX · Hereford

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing 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 PureField Ingredients, Co-products 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Otter Tail LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hankinson Renewable Energy, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Ethanol, Inc. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timpson Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midkiff Farmers Coop 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seagraves GP Shelling Plant 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Paso Golden Peanut Treenut Pecan Shelling 43 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 Engineered Controls 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez Fairburn 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Tide Construction Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluestem Brands dba Haband 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leath & Sons, Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swanson Industries 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 33-02 48th Avenue (Ground and 1st Floor) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redi Carpet Raleigh 43 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.