Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides · Arkansas
Boar's Head Co., Inc
Forrest City, AR · ~547 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Boar's Head Co., Inc runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 230
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Boar's Head Co., Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.6 to the Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides BLS benchmark of 3.3 (140% of benchmark) across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Boar's Head Co., Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Boar's Head Co., Inc falls in its industry
631 Collagen sausage casings made establishmentsSafer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Trend analysis for Boar's Head Co., Inc
Between 2016 and 2024, Boar's Head Co., Inc's Total Case Rate worsened from 0.1 to 5.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 9283% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 0.1, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 6.3, a spread of 6.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 8 reporting years, Boar's Head Co., Inc recorded 230 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 230 injuries, 9 illnesses shown on this page for Boar's Head Co., Inc are sourced from its own 8 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311612 - Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
24 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,135,977 hours worked = 4.23 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Boar's Head Co., Inc (this establishment) | 4.62 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311612 |
| Arkansas state avg (all industries) | 3.83 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Boar's Head Co., Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 32 reportable incidents · 32 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 34 reportable incidents · 34 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 24 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 33 reportable incidents · 33 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 27 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 34 reportable incidents · 33 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 21 reportable incidents · 21 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 34 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 6 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.9 | 3.7 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 25 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 6.3 | 2.9 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 28 | 6 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Boar's Head Co., Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 140% of the Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides benchmark, Boar's Head Co., Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.