Processed poultry manufacturing · Arkansas

Cargill Meat Solutions

Springdale, AR · ~1,061 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Meat Solutions runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed poultry manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cargill Meat Solutions: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Processed poultry manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Meat Solutions safety composite

Cargill Meat Solutions scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−3.0

2022→2024

Cargill Meat Solutions injury rate improved

Cargill Meat Solutions's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Springdale, AR AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/69
  • PHOTO Holmes Foods / Rio G…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~1,061 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Meat Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Meat Solutions averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Processed poultry manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Meat Solutions TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Meat Solutions falls in its industry

509 Processed poultry manufacturin establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 69 Processed poultry manufacturin employers in Arkansas.

Cargill Meat Solutions (1,061 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Meat Solutions
Cargill Meat Solutions (1,061 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Meat Solutions has more employees than the Processed poultry manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 18 15 0
2023 2.9 1.7 29 6 0
2022 3.1 1.4 26 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Springdale

509 Processed poultry manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 191 employers in Springdale, 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 Holmes Foods / Rio Grande Pak Foods 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG Foods 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Processing 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siler City Processing 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Collaboration Center 1,048 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Home, AR 1,081 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenneco 1,082 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unity Health - White County Med Center 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springdale Processing 7,841 FTE
CITY-NEAR Further Processing 5,981 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Street Plant 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springdale AR Terminal 1,221 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JC Precision Milling, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR National Standard Parts Associates, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ochsner Health Center - Elmwood A 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txaus - Austin 1,061 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Security Solutions 1,061 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beam Team, Inc 1,061 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milliken & Company- RMC (Corporate Headquarters) 1,062 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. 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.