Meat Processing · Missouri

Fricks Quality Meats

Washington, MO · ~294 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fricks Quality Meats runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat Processing workplace, earning a grade F.

Fricks Quality Meats: 10.8 TCR = 327% of Meat Processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fricks Quality Meats safety composite

Fricks Quality Meats scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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 10.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Fricks Quality Meats: 9.7 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Fricks Quality Meats's TCR rose 2.1 from 9.7 in 2023 to 11.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Washington, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 327% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #24/28
  • PHOTO Papa Cantella's Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~294 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Papa Cantella's Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fricks Quality Meats in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fricks Quality Meats averages 10.8 TCR (327% of the Meat Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Fricks Quality Meats TCR series: 2023=9.7 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Fricks Quality Meats falls in its industry

613 Meat Processing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 28 Meat Processing employers in Missouri.

Fricks Quality Meats (294 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Fricks Quality Meats
Fricks Quality Meats (294 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Fricks Quality Meats has more employees than the Meat Processing median and a higher 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
2024 11.8 10.5 35 0 0
2023 9.7 7.8 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MO · Washington

613 Meat Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 62 employers in Washington, MO · 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 Papa Cantella's Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WMP - Planta Procesadora 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC - Northland Plant 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pontrelli & Laricchia 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Reman Springfield - Engine Factory 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leonardo DRS Land Systems - St. Louis 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3061 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield Cardinals, LLC 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL WASHINGTON 1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Instrumentation : Washington SPO215 554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fluid Connectors : Washington SPO215 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 172 398 FTE
NAT-TCR Ncgoo - Greensboro Hib 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Scsmt - Sumter Center 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Abeka Print Shop 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Bodyworks 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saratoga Retirement Community 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rich W.Broad St 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walnut Creek 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montereau 294 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. 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.