Processed meats manufacturing · Minnesota

Hormel Foods - Austin

Austin, MN · ~1,914 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hormel Foods - Austin runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hormel Foods - Austin: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hormel Foods - Austin safety composite

Hormel Foods - Austin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Hormel Foods - Austin held a steady TCR band

Hormel Foods - Austin's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.4 in 2021 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.4 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Austin, MN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/19
  • PHOTO Progressive Processi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 202 inj
  • SIZE ~1,914 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Progressive Processing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hormel Foods - Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hormel Foods - Austin averages 2.5 TCR (76% 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 Foods - Austin TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hormel Foods - Austin falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 19 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Hormel Foods - Austin (1,914 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hormel Foods - Austin
Hormel Foods - Austin (1,914 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hormel Foods - Austin 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 2.7 2.0 53 0 0
2023 2.6 1.7 50 1 0
2022 2.4 1.7 48 0 0
2021 2.4 1.7 51 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Austin

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, MN · 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 Progressive Processing, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grinds - Butler WI 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quincy Facility 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR John R Morreale Meat Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midcontinent Media 1,926 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston Scientific CRM National Commercial 1,933 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosemount Aerospace Inc (Burnsville MN) 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin Plant 1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 1,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Austin 930 FTE
NAT-TCR Vance II 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Papt - Ais 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D3 District HQ 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Frederick E. Samuel Apts 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE BMW of North America, LLC 1,914 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand View Health 1,914 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anmed Health Medical Center 1,914 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-TNNAS43 1,913 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.