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
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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.

Boar's Head Co., Inc: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boar's Head Co., Inc safety composite

Boar's Head Co., Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Boar's Head Co., Inc: 0.1 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Boar's Head Co., Inc's TCR rose 5.6 from 0.1 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Forrest City, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Best Chicago Meat
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 230 inj
  • SIZE ~547 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Best Chicago Meat (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boar's Head Co., Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boar's Head Co., Inc averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides BLS benchmark).

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

Boar's Head Co., Inc TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=4.3 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Boar's Head Co., Inc falls in its industry

613 Collagen sausage casings made establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Boar's Head Co., Inc (547 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Boar's Head Co., Inc
Boar's Head Co., Inc (547 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Boar's Head Co., Inc has more employees than the Collagen sausage casings made from purch 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · AR · Forrest City

613 Collagen sausage casings made from purchased hides employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Forrest City, AR · 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 Best Chicago Meat 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Provisions 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield, Martin City Packaged 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux City 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JONESBORO 547 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kawneer Springdale 548 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kohler Co. 546 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Forrest City 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 91 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 91 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Forrest 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Location 5 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rolled Metal Products-Midwest 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodland 117 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEB Operator, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis IN 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE DMS Facility Services - South Pasadena 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Vernon Ladies' Association 547 FTE
NAT-SIZE D. H. Griffin Wrecking Company, Inc. 547 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.