Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Cargill Beef

Name: Cargill Beef Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Milwaukee, WI · ~227 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cargill Beef runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Beef: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Beef safety composite

Cargill Beef scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Cargill Beef: 2.0 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2017

Cargill Beef's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Milwaukee, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

DART 3.0 DART
RANK #20/52
PHOTO Swift Prepared Foods…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swift Prepared

2.9
Smithfield Pac

2.9
US05 Mankato L

2.9
Hormel Foods

2.9

What this shows Cargill Beef averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Cargill Beef TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Beef falls in its industry

613 Boxed beef made from purchased establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 52 Boxed beef made from purchased employers in Wisconsin.

Cargill Beef (227 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cargill Beef has more employees than the Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses median and a lower 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
2017	3.8	3.0	10	0	0
2016	2.0	2.0	4	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Milwaukee

613 Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, WI · 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	Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart	ELKHART, IN	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp	LINCOLN, NE	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	US05 Mankato Links Snacks Inc.	MANKATO, MN	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hormel Foods	KNOXVILLE, IA	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Payne & Dolan - Wauk/Mil./Trans./QC/Mfg.	WAUKESHA	227 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Milwaukee Service Center	WEST ALLIS	227 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mullins Cheese	MOSINEE	227 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tufco LP	GREEN BAY	227 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center	Milwaukee	7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FROEDTERT HOSPITAL	Milwaukee	7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Milwaukee Hospital	Milwaukee	3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus	Milwaukee	2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hackleburg	Hackleburg, AL	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ukiah Center (Cauki)	Ukiah, CA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stone Trucking Kiefer	Kiefer, OK	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main Plant	Elkhart, IN	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Ashton Company	Tucson, AZ	227 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Auburn, ME	Auburn, ME	227 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Somerville (Masom)	Somerville, MA	227 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stockton Center (Casto)	Stockton, CA	227 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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