Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing · Nebraska

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly

South Sioux City, NE · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly safety composite

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly: 4.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.6 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · South Sioux City, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Ingersoll Machine To…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingersoll Machine Tools (0.0 TCR gap)

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empirical foods, inc. - Assembly in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows empirical foods, inc. - Assembly averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=2.5 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where empirical foods, inc. - Assembly falls in its industry

391 Machine tools, metal cutting, establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
empirical foods, inc. - Assembly (39 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate empirical foods, inc. - Assembly
empirical foods, inc. - Assembly (39 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

empirical foods, inc. - Assembly has fewer employees than the Machine tools, metal cutting, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2023 6.2 4.7 4 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.6 2.3 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · NE · South Sioux City

391 Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 30 employers in South Sioux 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 Ingersoll Machine Tools 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Encore Packaging, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Wauseon, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peddinghaus Corporation - PCSC 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenvil 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lone Creek Cattle Company 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-D Construction Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sampson Construction - Kearney, NE 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nebraska Location 1,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux City 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beef Products, Inc. - South Sioux City 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1332 347 FTE
NAT-TCR M&B Hangers 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DeNyse Companies, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Richter Precision Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Anthony 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE NB Corporation of America 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Central Electric co-op 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire / Ems / All Other Employees 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Earle M. Jorgensen 39 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, 2020, 2019. 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.