Processed meats manufacturing · Nebraska

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington

Lexington, NE · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington runs at 542% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington: 17.9 TCR = 542% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington safety composite

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington: 16.1 → 30.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 30.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2018

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington's TCR rose 14.5 from 16.1 in 2016 to 30.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Lexington, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 542% of ind

  • DART 26.7 DART
  • RANK #26/29
  • PHOTO Hastings Foods LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hastings Foods LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington averages 17.9 TCR (542% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington TCR series: 2016=16.1 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=30.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 29 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington (26 employees, TCR 17.9) 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 Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington
Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington (26 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2018 30.5 26.7 3 5 0
2017 7.1 7.1 0 2 0
2016 16.1 12.1 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NE · Lexington

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lexington, NE · 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 Hastings Foods LLC 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olli Salumeria 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferdinand Inc 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelley Foods 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Timber Ridge 12347 445th Street Leigh NE 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE PFF 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farners Pride - Battle Creek Location 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Plant 2,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 637 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 637 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Regional Health Center 260 FTE
NAT-TCR East Valley 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG560 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Lutz 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR C1468 Adams Ave 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASL - Chillicothe 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 156 Arbor Town Square 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Exterminators Vero Beach 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fidelitone - Albuquerque 3 26 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.