Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants · California

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC

Vernon, CA · ~158 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC: 15.0 TCR = 453% of Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC safety composite

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 Vernon Proportion Foods LLC: 15.0 → 148.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 148.1 TCR · DART/TCR 9.04× in 2022

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC's TCR rose 133.2 from 15.0 in 2021 to 148.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 9.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 453% of ind

  • DART 135.2 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Meat Processing Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meat Processing Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC averages 15.0 TCR (453% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC TCR series: 2021=15 · 2022=148.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC falls in its industry

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen employers in California.

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC (158 employees, TCR 15.0) 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 Vernon Proportion Foods LLC
Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC (158 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cargill Vernon Proportion Foods LLC has fewer employees than the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except p 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
2022 148.1 135.2 22 1 0
2021 15.0 13.4 23 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · CA · Vernon

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, CA · 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 Meat Processing Plant 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Farms 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasco Plant 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logansport Plant 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE JAIME ZEPEDA LABOR CONTRACTING, INC. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE GULL ISLAND FARMS 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodi Farming, Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valle Verde FLC 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0566 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarendale St. Peters Operations, LLC 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Pullman 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Park Multi-Care Center 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SNA-ODFL 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #667 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATW-ODFL 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division 1 - Seattle 158 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.