Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Texas

Cargill

Abilene, TX · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cargill: 2.3 TCR = 58% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill safety composite

Cargill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2024

Cargill's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Abilene, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #26/51
  • PHOTO Hartford Mill,grain,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartford Mill,grain,cstore,agr (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 2.3 TCR (58% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Cargill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 51 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Texas.

Cargill (37 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill
Cargill (37 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill has more employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m 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 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · TX · Abilene

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 238 employers in Abilene, TX · 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 Hartford Mill,grain,cstore,agr 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Animal Nutrition 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milford Purina Feed Mill 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR THE CHIEF FEED MILL -EST 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fannin Growing 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bovina Cattle Company 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyland Grain, LLC- Spearman Gin 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alura Cogen 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abilene CCD 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Flex Cell Precision, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Brockport 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The McIntyre Company 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Brothers of Summerfield, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brickens Construction, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westfield Steel, Inc. - Springfield, OH 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliance Steel Company 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baroco Corporation Torrington CT 37 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.