Processed meats manufacturing · Iowa

Hormel Food

Algona, IA · ~258 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hormel Food runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hormel Food: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Food safety composite

Hormel Food scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2021→2024

Hormel Food injury rate improved

Hormel Food's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.8 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.8 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Algona, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #7/32
  • PHOTO Nestle Professional
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Professional (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Food in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hormel Food averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hormel Food TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hormel Food falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 32 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Hormel Food (258 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Hormel Food
Hormel Food (258 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hormel Food has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.7 1.0 4 1 0
2023 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 5 0 0
2021 2.8 0.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Algona

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Algona, IA · 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 Nestle Professional 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oscecola Food, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hummel Bros., Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sopakco 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA - Ottumwa - 14955 Truman St - The American Bottling Company 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1393 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Company 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH40 McClintock 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snap On Tools 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kossuth Regional Health Center 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Pioneer Algona ALG1 195 FTE
NAT-TCR 30644 - Capstone Frito Lay La Vista NE 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 1 / UC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearney, NE 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Logos Public Charter School 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Penn Aluminum International LLC - Murphysboro, Il 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE 319 - Westfield 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE 130 - Carmel 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE 034 - Royal Oak 258 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. 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.