Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants · Rhode Island

Cargill

North Kingstown, RI · ~461 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill runs at 379% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Cargill: 12.5 TCR = 379% of Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill safety composite

Cargill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

TCR Δ

−19.3

2020→2024

Cargill injury rate improved

Cargill's TCR fell 19.3 from 23.1 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=23.1 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · North Kingstown, RI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 379% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Vermont Packinghouse…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 173 inj
  • SIZE ~461 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vermont Packinghouse LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cargill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill averages 12.5 TCR (379% of the Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill TCR series: 2020=23.1 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill falls in its industry

212 Boxed meats produced in slaugh establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cargill (461 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill
Cargill (461 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cargill has more employees than the Boxed meats produced in slaughtering pla median and a higher 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 Fatalities
2024 3.9 3.2 13 10 0
2023 5.5 4.8 33 7 0
2022 16.8 15.0 75 46 0
2021 13.2 11.7 40 13 0
2020 23.1 19.6 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · RI · North Kingstown

212 Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 66 employers in North Kingstown, RI · 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 Vermont Packinghouse LLC 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Storm Lake Plant 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Plant 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FM Meat Products 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becton Dickinson 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE Systems Engineering Associates Corporation HQ 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gateway Healthcare, Inc. 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE Becton Dickinson - CRBard 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp 5,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Boat 3,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toray Plastics (America), Inc. 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toray-RI 554 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Scott Presbyterian Village 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ Logistics LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Ford Medical Center Pierson 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Clinton IL 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rite Aid Corporation 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lax-Flight Ops 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Syncreon Carlisle 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE EventLink, LLC 461 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. 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.