Processed meats manufacturing · Nebraska

Hastings Foods LLC

Grand Island, NE · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hastings Foods LLC runs at 543% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hastings Foods LLC: 17.9 TCR = 543% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hastings Foods LLC safety composite

Hastings Foods LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Hastings Foods LLC: 12.3 → 23.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2023

Hastings Foods LLC's TCR rose 11.3 from 12.3 in 2022 to 23.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Grand Island, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 543% of ind

  • DART 20.2 DART
  • RANK #27/29
  • PHOTO Beef Products, Inc. …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hastings Foods LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hastings Foods LLC averages 17.9 TCR (543% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hastings Foods LLC TCR series: 2022=12.3 · 2023=23.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hastings Foods LLC falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 29 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Hastings Foods LLC (36 employees, TCR 17.9) 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 Hastings Foods LLC
Hastings Foods LLC (36 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hastings Foods LLC has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2023 23.6 20.2 7 0 0
2022 12.3 12.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NE · Grand Island

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 140 employers in Grand Island, 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 Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olli Salumeria 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferdinand Inc 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelley Foods 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DNA Genetics 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Energy Center Omaha LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Livestock Systems, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102904 - MCC Fort Omaha Project 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Island 3,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Medical Center 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH Industrial - Grand Island 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornady Mfg Co 627 FTE
NAT-TCR Christian Care Assisted Living 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR East Vancouver Ready Mix 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Healthcare Elkin, Inc DBA Hugh Chatham Nursing Center 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Philadelphia 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf Coast Flooring & Services 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Cmh 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technology Center 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Kempton at Brightmore 36 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: 2023, 2022. 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.