Processed meats manufacturing · Minnesota

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota

Name: Buckhead Meat of Minnesota Workplace Safety Data
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St. Cloud, MN · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota safety composite

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota: 6.6 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota's TCR rose 1.5 from 6.6 in 2020 to 8.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · St. Cloud, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

DART 6.8 DART
RANK #17/19
PHOTO Nitsches Sausage Com…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nitsches Sausage Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.3
Nitsches Sausa

6.3
SWIFT BEEF CO.

6.3
Stock Yards /

6.3
Thrushwood Far

6.3

What this shows Buckhead Meat of Minnesota averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota TCR series: 2020=6.6 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Buckhead Meat of Minnesota falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota (66 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Buckhead Meat of Minnesota 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
2022	8.2	6.8	4	2
2021	4.1	4.1	1	1
2020	6.6	5.0	2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · St. Cloud

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 130 employers in St. Cloud, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nitsches Sausage Company	ROSEVILLE, MI	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SWIFT BEEF CO.	RIVERSIDE, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stock Yards / Birmingham	BIRMINGHAM, AL	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Thrushwood Farms	GALESBURG, IL	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Nor-Son Custom Builders	BAXTER	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mabel Canton Public Schools	MABEL	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	St Paul Plumbing and Heating Co	SAINT PAUL	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Atlas Foundation Co., LLC	OSSEO	66 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital	St. Cloud	4,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Cloud Hospital	St. Cloud	4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Cloud State University	St. Cloud	1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CentraCare Health Plaza	St. Cloud	928 FTE
NAT-TCR	Titan Concrete, Inc.	Sedalia, CO	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	SCH-ODFL	University Park, IL	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marriott Palm Beach Gardens	Palm Beach Gardens, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Octane Group Inc.	Westmont, IL	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bob's Space Racers, Inc.	Holly Hill, FL	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Psych Emergency Response Team	San Diego, CA	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	McIntosh Service, LLC	Tulsa, OK	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RIC-ODFL	Richmond, VA	66 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.