Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

Branding Iron Holdings

Sauget, IL · ~352 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Branding Iron Holdings runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Branding Iron Holdings: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Branding Iron Holdings safety composite

Branding Iron Holdings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−6.6

2016→2024

Branding Iron Holdings injury rate improved

Branding Iron Holdings's TCR fell 6.6 from 7.7 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=18.8 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Sauget, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #32/49
  • PHOTO Stock Yards Las Vega…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~352 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stock Yards Las Vegas Outwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Branding Iron Holdings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Branding Iron Holdings averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Branding Iron Holdings TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=18.8 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Branding Iron Holdings falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 49 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Illinois.

Branding Iron Holdings (352 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Branding Iron Holdings
Branding Iron Holdings (352 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Branding Iron Holdings has more employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry 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 1.0 1.0 4 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 9 0 0
2022 1.2 1.0 6 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 8 0 0
2019 2.8 2.5 9 0 0
2018 8.8 6.9 29 0 0
2017 18.8 10.3 31 0 0
2016 7.7 5.5 24 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Sauget

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sauget, IL · 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 Stock Yards Las Vegas Outwest 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Market Foods 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Food Products, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Meat Company Inc 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1325 Cicero 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.W. Schneider, Inc. 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grupo Antolin Nashville 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Office 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SMO2 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZSST 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton Chemical Corporation - Sauget, IL 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - STL 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Douglas Dynamics, aka Western Products 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Lake Park 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Battle Creek 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntersville 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chore-Time - Milford 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCT - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Division 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Feed, Inc. 352 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.