Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants · Ohio

HK Cooperative Inc.

Sandusky, OH · ~352 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HK Cooperative Inc. runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

HK Cooperative Inc.: 10.1 TCR = 307% of Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HK Cooperative Inc. safety composite

HK Cooperative Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2021→2024

HK Cooperative Inc. injury rate improved

HK Cooperative Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 11.3 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.3 · 2022=11.4 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Sandusky, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 307% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Northstar Packing, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~352 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northstar Packing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HK Cooperative Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HK Cooperative Inc. averages 10.1 TCR (307% of the Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

HK Cooperative Inc. TCR series: 2021=11.3 · 2022=11.4 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where HK Cooperative Inc. falls in its industry

212 Boxed meats produced in slaugh establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Boxed meats produced in slaugh employers in Ohio.

HK Cooperative Inc. (352 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 HK Cooperative Inc.
HK Cooperative Inc. (352 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

HK Cooperative Inc. has more employees than the Boxed meats produced in slaughtering pla 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 7.7 5.4 30 1 0
2022 11.4 9.4 39 0 0
2021 11.3 7.8 31 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · OH · Sandusky

212 Boxed meats produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 101 employers in Sandusky, OH · 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 Northstar Packing, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walt's Wholesale Meats 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yoder Meats 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholas Meat, LLC 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1894 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Home Care 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Regent, Inc. 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quanex IG Systems Cambridge 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Point 2,836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Sandusky 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN-FRMC1-MAIN CAMPUS 1,834 FTE
CITY-NEAR LMN Development 1,048 FTE
NAT-TCR Cordele Health and Rehab 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Wood Products, Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Turner Lane 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mldeo-Mldiv-El Oro Cattle Co 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Poway - A20 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DSD8 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL1 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Urbandale Ia 352 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, 2022, 2021. 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.