Animal except Poultry Slaughtering · Nebraska

Dakota City Plant

Dakota City, NE · ~3,776 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
4
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota City Plant runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal except Poultry Slaughtering workplace, earning a grade F.

Dakota City Plant: 8.1 TCR = 245% of Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota City Plant safety composite

Dakota City Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 4

Safer than 0% 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

−4.4

2017→2024

Dakota City Plant injury rate improved

Dakota City Plant's TCR fell 4.4 from 8.6 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.6 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Dakota City, NE ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 245% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO Cypress Valley - Pot…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 730 inj
  • SIZE ~3,776 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cypress Valley - Pottsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota City Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota City Plant averages 8.1 TCR (245% of the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota City Plant TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota City Plant falls in its industry

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughte establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 Animal except Poultry Slaughte employers in Nebraska.

Dakota City Plant (3,776 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Dakota City Plant
Dakota City Plant (3,776 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Dakota City Plant has more employees than the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering 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 4.2 2.9 74 67 0
2023 3.0 1.9 54 47 0
2022 16.5 15.2 76 581 0
2021 9.2 8.6 78 284 0
2020 10.4 9.3 88 309 4
2019 5.6 4.7 95 144 0
2018 7.2 5.9 129 158 0
2017 8.6 6.7 136 202 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NE · Dakota City

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughtering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 9 employers in Dakota City, NE · 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 Cypress Valley - Pottsville 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Tolleson Inc 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Locker Service, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR republic foods 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Island 3,651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Plant 2,926 FTE
STATE-SIZE FUSION MEDICAL STAFFING, LLC 2,874 FTE
STATE-SIZE 61830001 METHODIST HOSPITAL 2,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota City DC 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota City Hides 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0134 Tyson Foods Inc. - Dakota City 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI / TYSON FOODS INC. - DAKOTA CITY (PROCESSING) 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Facilities Management (Buildings & Grounds) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartland Store 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, Inc 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercury Marine FdL Campus 3,778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. 3,773 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SYR1 3,773 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.