Processed meats manufacturing · Tennessee

Cargill

Nashville, TN · ~269 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill safety composite

Cargill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2020→2023

Cargill injury rate improved

Cargill's TCR fell 1.6 from 6.1 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.1 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Kent Quality Foods
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kent Quality Foods (0.0 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 3.8 TCR (116% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill TCR series: 2020=6.1 · 2021=2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Cargill (269 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill
Cargill (269 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cargill has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2023 4.5 3.8 11 2 0
2022 2.7 2.5 10 2 0
2021 2.0 1.3 6 0 0
2020 6.1 4.7 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · TN · Nashville

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 Kent Quality Foods 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liguria Foods 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astra Foods, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zanesville Plant 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Midway TN Farm 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASCO INC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stansell Electric Company 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albea Americas 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Peninsula Improvement Corporation 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR COPPER STATE TURBINE ENGINE COMPANY Engine Shop 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerofab Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilgrims Pride Corp 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valero Meraux Refinery 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Manor Stockton 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Celularity 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harcon, Inc. 269 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: 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.