Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants · Texas

Cargill Meat Solutions 02

Name: Cargill Meat Solutions 02 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Friona, TX · ~2,229 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Meat Solutions 02: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 safety composite

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
Fatalities: C 0

Safer than 55% 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 Meat Solutions 02: 3.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2019

Cargill Meat Solutions 02's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Friona, TX ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #12/19
PHOTO Perry Way Foods, LLC
BOOK 4y book
INJ 205 inj
SIZE ~2,229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perry Way Foods, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Texas employers → · Look up another →

Hyrum

4.1
This site

4
Perry Way Food

4
Production

3.9
SWIFT PORK COM

3.8

What this shows Cargill Meat Solutions 02 averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Meat Solutions 02 falls in its industry

212 Animal fats (except poultry an establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Animal fats (except poultry an employers in Texas.

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 (2,229 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cargill Meat Solutions 02 has more employees than the Animal fats (except poultry and small ga median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2019	5.5	3.3	71	63
2018	4.1	2.6	51	48
2017	3.1	1.1	41	31
2016	3.0	1.5	42	29

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · TX · Friona

212 Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Friona, TX · 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	Perry Way Foods, LLC	WATERTOWN, WI	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Production	CORPUS CHRISTI, TX	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SWIFT PORK COMPANY WORTHINGTON	WORTHINGTON, MN	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hyrum	HYRUM, UT	4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Methodist Hospital Dallas (MDMC-100)	DALLAS	2,225 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brace Industrial Group	HOUSTON	2,217 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TXANT - SAN ANTONIO HUB	SAN ANTONIO	2,213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TXAUS11 DELL CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER	AUSTIN	2,246 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Primary Beef-Friona Tx	Friona	2,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PSSI - 0079 Cargill Incorporated- Friona	Friona	116 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parmer County Community Hospital dba Parmer Medical Center	Friona	110 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PSSI / CARGILL INCORPORATED- FRIONA	Friona	95 FTE
NAT-TCR	DAV	Lexington, NC	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Redlands Automotive Services Inc	Redlands, CA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stark Carpet Corp	Calhoun, GA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0025 2457	Santa Rosa, CA	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lutheran Hospital of Ft Wayne Indiana	Fort Wayne, IN	2,228 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JBS Marshalltown	Marshalltown, IA	2,231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Shoe Palace Corporation	Morgan Hill, CA	2,227 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Henry Ford Wyandotte	Wyandotte, MI	2,232 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: 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.